In collaboration with Bella Kesoyan

Pipeline presents Strings Attached. Chapter II, featuring Paul Hodgson, Anna Ilsley, Gabriel Kidd, Nika Neelova, Leon Scott-Engel, Sophie Seita, Norberto Spina and Katy Stubbs.

The second chapter of ‘Strings Attached’ embraces the intersections of art, music, literature, poetry, and performance. For this project, each artist selected a book from the Kesoyan book collection as a reference for a new work. The resulting responses forge dialogue across disciplines, asking what new spaces of exchange can emerge when creative processes are set in motion.

Kesoyan’s book collection, assembled over years of academic and artistic research into the medium, spans more than 500 book objects and over a century of creative history. Many are rarely seen works, including Madonna’s 1990’s sex book, a signed edition of Andy Warhol’s Wild Raspberries, Joan Miró’s Courtisan Grotesque with Iliazd, Leonor Fini’s visual interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe, and Henri Matisse’s illustrated Pasiphaé. A curated selection from this collection will be on view alongside the artists’ responses.