 
In Domesticated Land Susan Lipper navigates an apocalyptic world poised between inertia and the end of mankind, somewhere in the California desert. Uncannily tranquil, the landscape offers a trans-historical litany of monuments, icons and signs from which the author and protagonist constructs a narrative interspersed with the words of historic and contemporary women. Putting female subjectivity into relief, Lipper obfuscates the romantic notion of the desert as a land of freedom and self-enlightenment. A lone snake, a dilapidated home, the remains of a cinematic stage set, the head of a fallen woman, a military base, barbed wire: such facts create fiction, and one that serves as an unnerving political admonition concerning the current state of America. Pushing and pulling against the documentary tradition, Lipper’s Land is her last resort in quest of a redeemable
future.
Susan Lipper (b. 1953 in New York, United States) graduated with an MFA in photography from Yale School of Art in 1983. Her work is held in numerous museum collections including the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Most recently her work was exhibited at the MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, and was the subject of a solo show at Higher Pictures, New York. In 2015, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship which she used to pursue a long term project set in the Californian Desert. Lipper is the author of three monographs, Grapevine (1994), trip (2000) and Domesticated Land (2018).
Embossed bare board hardback
96 pages
24.1 cm x 27.1 cm
€40.00 £35.00 $45.00
ISBN 9781912339037
5-8 April 2018
Stand 80, Publisher's Section,
Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue NY 10019
Launches and Signings
Saturday 7 April, 2-3pm
Group book signing by Morgan Ashcom, Sam Contis, Gregory Halpern, Mahtab Hussain, Susan Lipper and Guillaume Simoneau.
Saturday 7 April, 4.30pm
Launch and signing of a shimmer of possibility by Paul Graham.
Spotlight Talks
Sunday 8 April, 4.20-4.35pm
Mahtab Hussain in conversation with Chris Boot.
Saturday 7 April, 4.00-4.30pm
Paul Graham in conversation with Rebecca Bengal to coincide with the launch of a shimmer of possibility.
5 – 8 April: MACK at AIPAD, Pier 94, New York
7 April: Group book signing by Morgan Ashcom, Sam Contis, Gregory Halpern, Mahtab Hussain, Susan Lipper and Guillaume Simoneau at AIPAD, Pier 94, New York; 2–3pm
7 April: Launch of a shimmer of possibility by Paul Graham preceded by Paul Graham in conversation with Rebecca Bengal at AIPAD, Pier 94, New York; 4–5pm
Until 7 April: New work by Thomas Demand at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
7 April: Cesare Fabbri presents The Flying Carpet in Ravenna at Biblioteca Classense together with Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari - Charlotte Schepke - Jean-Paul Deridder.
8 April - 8 July 2018: The Discrete Channel with Noise by Clare Strand at Centre Photographique D'Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France
14 April: Launch of Experimental Lake by Guillaume Simoneau at the Canadian Centre of Architecture, Montreal
28 April: Book signing and exhibition of Domesticated Land by Susan Lipper at PGH Photo Fair, Spaces Corners booth, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; 1pm
17 – 20 May: MACK at Photo London, Somerset House
18 May: The Royal Photographic Society Annual Lecture by Susan Lipper at Photo London, Somerset House
18 May: Thomas Struth in conversation with Tobia Bezzola at Photo London, Somerset House
19 May — 12 August 2018: Landscape by Tacita Dean at The Royal Academy, London, England
7 June – 30 September: Incoming by Richard Mosse at Breaking Point Photo Triennial, Hamburger Kunstalle
15 – 24 June: Incoming by Richard Mosse at Dark MOFO, Tasmania
22 June - 2 September: Vanessa Winship with Dorothea Lange at Barbican, London
August 2018: MACK at OBSCURA Festival of Photography, Penang, Malaysia
25 September 2018 - 7 January 2019: Luigi Ghirri El Mapa y el Territorio at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
12 February - 20 May 2019: Luigi Ghirri Cartes et Territoires at Jeu de Paume, Paris, France |
