msdm a nomadic house-studio-gallery for photographic art and curatorial research, an expanded practice of the artist's book, photobook publishing and peer-to-peer collaboration created by contemporary artist paula roush
TITLE WORK: SUPER – PRIVATE : SCENES 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
AUTHOR: paula roush
SOURCE: Arab Image Foundation
EPS + Al-Yom Collections
MEDIUM: Leporello bookwork in six volumes
PAGES: Printed one side
DIMENSIONS: 30x11cm, expanding to 40-130cm
depending on the volume
PAPER: Epson 189 gsm paper (accordeon)
and Corona offset 120gsm (folded insert)
BINDING: Accordeon glued to boards
COVER: black boards with stickers
PROCESS: Inkjet printing
COLOUR: colour
TEXT: Conversation with EPS, who donated
the ‘EPS collection’ to AIF
PUBLISHERS: Plan Bey 1st editon
YEAR: 2015
msdm publications 2nd edition
YEAR: 2019
ABOUT THE WORK
Super-private consists of photographs taken in the late 1940s,
1950s by a Lebanese banker known as RS, sourced from the Arab Image Foundation’s EPS collection. Insert includes a newspaper photograph from the ‘Al-Yom collection’ (also held at the Foundation), showing the building where RS worked, damaged by
a nearby explosion during the 1975-1990 Civil War, and a conversation between PR (paula roush) and EPS, who donated the ‘EPS collection’ to the Arab Image Foundation and wishes to remain anonymous.
For the essay "Torn, Folded, Curled: Orphan Photographs
Sourced From the Arab Image Foundation" see here
EXHIBITIONS:
Torn Curled Folded
GALLERY: Makan project space BeIrut
DATE: Oct - Nov 2015 See here
infinite multiple Lounge Arrival
GALLERIES: Carrol Fletcher and Arebyte London
DATE: 2017-2018 See here
scene #1
RS (self-portrait by the flower curtains)
12 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 130 cm
scene #2
Andrée (Beirut Hippodrome)
8 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 84 cm
scene #3
Rositta (Budapest, hotel room)
6 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 63 cm
scene #4
Andrée (Show jumping)
8 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 84 cm
scene #5
Rositta (Beirut Corniche)
8 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 84 cm
scene #6
Rositta (Hamra, family home)
8 accordion folded pages 29.7 x 84 cm
msdm is Mobile Strategies of Display & Mediation
a nomadic House — Studio — Gallery for photographic art
curatorial research, expanded practice of the artist's book
photobook publishing and peer - to - peer collaborations
by appointment only
please e-mail to schedule a visit
[within a covid safety framework]
paula roush
founder
paularoush@gmail.com
House—Studio—Gallery
London SE
msdm@msdm.org.uk
school of arts & creative industries
london south bank university
roushp@lsbu.org.uk