Elodie Pong – Around Life’s Central Park exhibition catalog
In the exhibition Around Life’s Central Park, the Kunstsammlung Jena presented – for the first time in Germany – video, film, and text works by the artist Elodie Pong. The accompanying catalog unfolds ten distinct cycles of work and includes an essay by Quinn Latimer, “Endless Endings or Your Pose Is My Pose – The Substitutive Function of Language and Body in the Work of Elodie Pong.”
Elodie Pong’s practice orbits around the mutable constellations of identity and perception, navigating the tension between authenticity and performance. Her works inhabit the fragile space between intimacy and exposure, between gestures of self-assertion and the subtle choreography of collective expectation.
Reflecting the 16:9 and 4:3 formats of Pong’s video pieces, the selected film stills weave through the publication as a continuous visual current. Extending beyond the confines of the page, they are punctuated only by title cards that evoke the silent interruptions of early cinema.
For the typographic design, a custom cut of the typeface Bolek by Piero Glina was conceived and applied across all title screens, giving the publication its distinct visual cadence and unifying presence.
