ROTTERDAM.-Witte de With announced the publication of Manon de Boer. Co-published with the Frankfurter Kunstverein and Revolver on the occasions of Manon de Boer's solo exhibition at Witte de With curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Zoë Gray (25 January 25 to 24 February 2008) and her survey exhibition Manon de Boer: "The Time That is Left" at the Frankfurter Kunstverein curated by Chus Martínez (8 February to 27 April 2008), this is the first extensive catalogue to consider the film- and sound-based work of this Dutch, Brussels-based artist.

An artist of growing acclaim-with recent exhibitions at PS1, New York, and critically acclaimed participation in the Biennale di Venezia and the 5th berlin biennale for contemporary art (2008)-de Boer has developed collaborative experiments, involving friends, musicians and performers, that shape a unique notion of perception, of time and of history. Her insights into the cultural construction and personal reflection of female icons, such as Suely Rolnik and Sylvia Kristel, further open up her work to a radical rethinking of subjectivity.

De Boer's exhibitions at the Witte de With, Rotterdam and Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2008 provided an occasion for several outstanding thinkers to contribute their insights into her work and its broader concerns. The publication includes essays, meditations and transcriptions by Elena Crippa, Paul Elliman, Lars Bang Larsen, Chus Martínez, Suely Rolnik and Jon Wozencroft/Tobi Maier, with an introduction by Martínez, Schafhausen, and Monika Szewczyk.

De Boer's portraits materialise the tension between the potentiality and the actuality of representation. She never reveals the subject of the work fully, but rather blurs the limits of an existence, exposing it while preventing its complete accessibility. - from Elena Crippa's essay 'Encounters in Time'.