CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/20/2018

Emmy Catedral on NYABF favorite, 'Ellie Ga: Square Octagon Circle'

Featured image is reproduced from Ellie Ga: Square Octagon Circle, the lyrical new release and NY Art Book Fair favorite from Siglio. "Opening the layered die-cuts that make up the book’s cover feels like diving," NYABF Fairs and Editions coordinator Emmy Catedral writes in BOMB. "Each spread: text on photograph, full bleed. I find myself in a sequence of underwater backgrounds in varying stages of lucidity. One could go through the book in a single sitting, but my favorite part of this object is that I can surface, linger with a line, dive back underwater, revisit Ga’s well-used Egyptology books with page flags spilling at the edges. There are transcriptions of recorded conversations with archeologists, silversmiths, and filmmakers, as well as a memorable recounting of a visit to a secretive Department of Drowned Antiquities."