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Category
Books / Image-Driven
Annual ID
ADC102_PUB030B
About the Work
Redaction brings together a complex set of contents, contexts, and materials. An artist (Titus Kaphar) and his paintings, a poet (Reginald Dwayne Betts) and his poetry, and their collaborative series of screen prints (Redaction) that examines the issue of money bail in the United States, where people who are arrested, but unable to afford bail, remain incarcerated even though they have been neither tried nor convicted.
The prints, originally exhibited at MoMA PS1, combine Titus’s etched portraits of incarcerated women and men with Dwayne’s poetry derived from selectively redacted legal documents, typeset in a project-specific “Redaction” font designed by Forest Young with Jeremy Mickel (MCKL Type). “Redaction as a tool of revelation,” as Dwayne describes it.
With black cloth, black and white foil stamping, multiple paper stocks, and special inks, the result is a mass-produced artist's book. A core idea was to reproduce the artworks with a process that mirrored the original artistic process, rather than regular CMYK four-colour printing. The silkscreened artworks were separated back out and processed for offset lithography with white and metallic inks on Fedrigoni Sirio Black paper at Die Keure Printing. Some separations were maintained as dividing sections, printed on translucent vellum to deconstruct and expose the Redaction print layers. The artworks are deliberately printed on single-sided sheets: as Titus has said, “we expect folks to cut it out and put it on the wall.”
While the book has all of the elements of a hardcover—cloth, board, foilstamping, head and tail bands, cover overhang—it’s actually flexibound and thus designated “softcover.” For very good reason: in many prisons, hardcover books are still considered contraband.
The prints, originally exhibited at MoMA PS1, combine Titus’s etched portraits of incarcerated women and men with Dwayne’s poetry derived from selectively redacted legal documents, typeset in a project-specific “Redaction” font designed by Forest Young with Jeremy Mickel (MCKL Type). “Redaction as a tool of revelation,” as Dwayne describes it.
With black cloth, black and white foil stamping, multiple paper stocks, and special inks, the result is a mass-produced artist's book. A core idea was to reproduce the artworks with a process that mirrored the original artistic process, rather than regular CMYK four-colour printing. The silkscreened artworks were separated back out and processed for offset lithography with white and metallic inks on Fedrigoni Sirio Black paper at Die Keure Printing. Some separations were maintained as dividing sections, printed on translucent vellum to deconstruct and expose the Redaction print layers. The artworks are deliberately printed on single-sided sheets: as Titus has said, “we expect folks to cut it out and put it on the wall.”
While the book has all of the elements of a hardcover—cloth, board, foilstamping, head and tail bands, cover overhang—it’s actually flexibound and thus designated “softcover.” For very good reason: in many prisons, hardcover books are still considered contraband.
2023 Awards
Total Points: 9
Bronze Cube
Credits
Design Firm
Practise / Auckland
Freelancer
Amanda Barrow
Creative Director
Forest Young
Designer
Amanda Barrow
Director
James Goggin
Artist
James Goggin
Forest Young
Lithographer
Sebastiaan Hanekroot
Rossella Castello
Printer
Die Keure / Bruges
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