ALIA ALI in book form
When is a book more than a book?
When it’s made by an artist.
Artist Alia Ali finished her latest series of works featured below, Chroma, Glitzch, Shreds, Madrugada and Refracted Futures and launched them into the world at Paris Photo, Art Miami and Zone Maco in Mexico.
CHROMA Series, 2025. pigment print on French produced Canson Baryta Photographique Baryta Matte Paper 310gr. mounted on aluminum in white wooden shadow box with anti-UV non-reflective museum glass. 48.8 x 33.5 in // 119 x 85 cm. Edition of 5 + 2 AP.
SHREDS Series, pigment print on French produced Canson Baryta Photographique Baryta Matte Paper 310gr. mounted on aluminum in black custom wooden frame and ati-reflective museum glass. 41.7 in x 30 in // 106 cm x 76 cm (photo only). Edition of 5 + 2 AP
REFRACTED FUTURES Series, 2025, UV Flatbed direct print on Dichroic Glass. 42 in x 28 in (124.5 x 83.5 cm). Edition of 3 + 2AP
GLITZCH Series, pigment print on French produced Canson Baryta Photographique Baryta Matte Paper 310gr. with UV laminate mounted on aluminum Dibond in custom built wooden frame hand upholstered by artist with Dutch wax print sourced from Nigeria. 48.5 x 34.5 x 3 in // 123 x 88 x 7.5 cm. Edition 5 + 2 AP
Hot on the heels of this creative explosion comes a new book published by Hatje Kantz. This is less a book and more a journey. Rather than a mono-graph, “alia ali… one of many” is a multi-graph, a drawing of many.
Ali deconstructs artificial binaries to examine inherited political narratives—diaspora, identity, borders—through the lens of photography, language, textile, and architectural installations.
It is her signature work made portable.
A map of patterns emerge, interwoven with artist statements, research images, exchanges with collaborators, and fragments from her journals. Words and images draw us simultaneously into the micro musings of the artist’s mind and zoom out to a macro reflection of the global and communal nature of the artist’s practice.
Ali’s multi-graph is a textural experience in which each page is folded upon itself, leaving one wondering at what is invisible in plain sight. This extraordinary book also impresses with its special form of Japanese binding, exceptional design carried out by Studio Lin.
You know us, we are lovers of print and we are in love with this publication.
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