Marie-Sophie Beinke - Things That Cannot Be Put Into Words

This artist’s pocketbook comes in six languages: the original German language, translated into Dutch, French, English, Japanese, and Nepalese.

This is a conceptual publishing project that consists of a mainly blank book, open to every possible idea and image. Things éthat cannot be put into words: What has disappeared, the snatched away, the absent, the nothingness, and the void are made present. Therefore, these books are a space for the conceivable, where words fail. Marie-Sophie Beinke’s artist’s books openly invite the reader to critical thinking, dialogue, and debate.

Marie-Sophie Beinke is an interdisciplinary artist and publisher for M-S B Verlag. Her artistic medium of expression is language, which is reflected in performance, painting, installation, publishing, and writing. She thematizes political, social, and humanitarian issues and addresses and focuses on conflict and violence. The interactions between the artist, the environment, and the audience form the basis of her practice. The artist also focuses on artist’s publications (book, ephemera, multiple, mail, and post art) as a means of revealing and archiving her practice. She is a co-founder of 7032 – a collective together with Amrit Karki (°1990, NP).

Editing and sequencing: Marie-Sophie Beinke
Design: Marie-Sophie Beinke & Bruno Devos
320 pages
10.7 x 16.7 cm
Language: English
Publication date: March 2023
ISBN: 9789464002225