Fabel / Fábula / Fable

Using the centrefold as an axis, this book develops a visual faux-narrative from its extremes to the centre, recalling a travel or dream through different geographies, wondering about the unity of one's speech and one's position towards images and reality. Through the repetition of objects or subjects this line up of images avoids the construction of hierarchy in images, and produces both a déjà vu strangeness effect and a night/day cycle. This book shows for the first time a wider group of photos by Sousa revealing new layers and bringing clues for trackers on his work.

This catalog was published on the occasion of André Sousa´s residency as part of the international studio programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2009.