2013

In 2013, Fogo Island Arts published Zin Taylor: Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots in the monograph series.

Accompanying Zin Taylor’s exhibition at the Fogo Island Gallery is the catalogue Zin Taylor: Lichen Voices / Stripes and Dots, copublished by Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press (Berlin). The publication features essays by Zoë Gray and Saelan Twerdy, and Zin Taylor in conversation with Patrick Staff and Robin Simpson. The book also presents the artist’s portfolio An Index Describing the Individual 19 Thoughts About Stripes and Dots Arranged on a Vitrine Made of Brass and Glass.

Taylor’s exhibition at the Fogo Island Gallery followed on from his two-part residency with Fogo Island Arts in 2010 and 2012. A number of the works presented in the show derived from the time he spent on Fogo Island. For instance, the photo series and video work, Lichen Voices (2013) presented two men throwing poses while dressed in stripe and dot pajamas, respectively. These pieces were manifestations of the artist’s ongoing work with an artistic vocabulary of stripes and dots and the two figures in the images suggested an overlay of culture (straight lines and perfect circles; patterning and abstracted repetition) superimposed on a background of the lichen-clad rock formations so ubiquitous on Fogo Island. However, instead of dominating the landscape, Taylor saw his cultural avatars as controlled by the lichen, hence the work’s title: Lichen Voices.

Edited by Rosemary Heather and Nicolaus Schafhausen
Contributions by Zoë Gray, Saelan Twerdy, Zin Taylor, Patrick Staff, Robin Simpson
Co-published by Fogo Islands Arts and Sternberg Press
Design by Surface

2013, English
15 x 21 cm, 120 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-3-956790-21-8