
Eel Soup
- Publisher
- Witty Books
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 979-12-80177-12-4
- Specifications
- Soft cover
25 x 29.5 cm
160 pages
Design by Tommaso Tanini, Federico Clavarino, Tami Izko
Picture an eel soup: a wriggling mass of creatures whose ends and beginnings can be swapped in the human eye, trapped in a limited space, their bodies entangled below the surface or floating on top of it, half submerged in a hot broth. Like the visible bits of the viscous animals, the objects presented in this book are fragments of an ephemeral reality. By carefully observing spaces and body parts as they twist, press, open, close, bend and touch, photography and clay have become Federico Clavarino and Tami Izko's means to reinterpret a series of meaningful connections. The resulting series ultimately tells a story of coexistence. The book weaves together installation views, images of the studio in Milan, photographs of the sculptures and sculptures made out of photographs, and documents its own making.