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Forget & Remember
2021 || Hardcover || Gil e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Gil Nader (1968) and Moti Porat (1971) are known for their socially engaged work in which they explore the notion of individuality and question forms and norms of identity.
Forget & Remember investigates the background and migration history of their Jewish-Israeli families on the basis of their parents’ collections. In Forget & Remember, Gil's father Yitzhak and Moti's mother Naomi are the protagonists. The reader is introduced to the stories of and about them and their very different coll...
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Notes on Happiness
2023 || Paperback || Alex Farrar || Jap Sam Books
| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.
| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.
Are Dutch people happy people?
Does art make you happy?
What was your earliest memory of happiness?
What have you taught your children about happiness?
Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...
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Six impossible things before breakfast
2023 || Paperback || Ingrid de Coster e.a. || Jap Sam Books
How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.
For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...
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My Mom Wants to Go Back Home. Hanna Hrabarska
2024 || Hardcover || Hanna Hrabarska || Jap Sam Books
'My Mom Wants to Go Back Home' is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother Iryna, she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands.
'This book is a journey. In the beginning it runs across borders, countries and cities. Later it extends inwards, into a landscape of our thoughts, feelings and emotions.'
Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual artist, and photojournalist. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism fr...
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AND / AS
art and/as research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2016 || Paperback || Els De Bruyn e.a. || Jap Sam Books
In celebration of its rich history in the arts and design community, the 350-year-old Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp undertook assembling a five-year overview of its arts research programs. In both text and image, AND/AS reflects on what research in the arts means for the artist, for art education and for the art world. The comfortably sized and well-illustrated book offers at its core visual insight into the strategies, processes and results of artistic research in a variety of disci...
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Boerenzij | The Rural Side
2021 || Paperback || Wapke Feenstra e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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Koen Taselaar. Rollable Ramblings
2021 || Paperback || Katalin Herzog || Jap Sam Books
The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skillful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate Tapestries.
Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings. In search of ways to process his diverse output, he makes publications and large scale drawings, which function as flat exhibition space...
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Marc Bijl The Works 1984-2084
2024 || Hardcover || Lynden Hak e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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Tirzo Martha.I wonder if they'll laugh when I'm dead
2017 || Paperback || Rob Perrée e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Dit is de eerste monografie over beeldend kunstenaar Tirzo Martha (Willemstad, Curacao 1965). Deze omvangrijke publicatie omvat een intrigerende compilatie van zijn kunstwerken, performances en installaties. Martha wordt gedreven door een diep engagement met de wereld om hem heen, in het bijzonder met Curaçao en het Caribische Gebied. Zijn werk is veelzijdig, kritisch, politiek en maatschappelijk geladen. Het oeuvre van Martha omvat beelden, installaties, assemblages, video's en performances...
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How To Make Sculpture Move
2022 || Paperback || Ruta Butkute e.a. || Jap Sam Books