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Christof Nüssli
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“The old world is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
(Antonio Gramsci)

Withheld due to: deals with one of the greatest torture scandals in recent times. It calls upon the viewers to question what they see, and the feelings it creates in them while looking at it.

Can images shock, despite not showing anything shocking?
Does a censored transparency still create transparency?
What do you feel when you look at an isolated part of the body?

Withheld due to: is created with government-released images and files from Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. It does not seek to please. It’s disturbing, with the full intention of doing so.

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– Best Book Design from all over the World, 2017 (Bronze Medal).
– The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, 2016.
– Kassel Photobook Award 2017 – The Experts Selection

Christof Nüssli; Withheld due to:; 404 pp; 198 colour illustrations Softcover; 15x22cm; Edition of 500; Texts by Eliza Relman, Christof Nüssli; Graphic Design by Studio Nüssli+Nuessli; Published by cpress, Zurich; Distributed by Idea Books, Amsterdam; ISBN 978-3-9524710-0-5

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Christof Nüssli

Christof Nüssli (*1986) works with (moving) image, text, installation and print graphics. The artist is concerned with power, obtaining and archiving information, state repression, and architecture. He searches for alternative networks, new forms of narration and interstices. He often focuses his attention on incidents that superficially seem banal and meaningless. He shifts these into a new context and thus enables a different kind of reader.

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