NEW YORK.- Printed Matter Inc. is very pleased to announce a book launch for a new artists’ book by Sophie Tottie titled For the Vicinity of Concord. For the Vicinity of Concord was made as an independent art piece over the course of several years while Tottie was working on the exhibitions “Urban Vision” curated by Jessica Morgan at Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Mass, “Days to Come,” at Galleri Andreas Brändström in Stockholm and "Mirror’s Edge," a touring exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor. Finalized during her residency at the DAAD Berliner Künstler Programm, the book was completed in 2003 with the addition of an essay,“Forms of the Possible” by curator Carlos Basualdo. Sophie Tottie is represented by Galerie Carlier / Gebauer in Berlin, Germany.

For the Vicinity of Concord collects images drawn from Tottie’s installations, paintings, photographs and video work, and overlays them with a series of texts whose relation to the images is evocative if oblique. Different voices offer memories of persecution and war, discussion of scientific experiments and reflections on the interaction of political events and artistic practice. Speaking from and about a variety of historical perspectives, the first person narratives that run through the book firmly ground Tottie’s abstract existential concerns in lived reality. Tottie’s interest in the intersection of the individual with larger structural systems is beautifully suited to the intimate accessibility of the book. Printed in full bleed, fully saturated color, For the Vicinity of Concord presents a visually and intellectually complex weave of Sophie Tottie’s political and artistic sensibility.

For the Vicinity of Concord was published by DAAD Berliner Künstler Programm and Sophie Tottie, 2001 in an edition of 700, ISBN: 3-89357-100-0 (Germany) and 91-631-1412-7 (Sweden).