Descripción

Rosana Simonassi (Argentina), reenacts photographs that involve the death of women that have been publicized in the media. These cases have become widely circulated and Simonassi’s work seeks to interpret the value of the distribution of such images in the public domain.
In addressing the images of the dead female body, she questions both the role of the media in broadcasting images of these deaths, but also pontificates about the potential of the audience, whose morbid fascination while often horrified, refuse and consume the images, simultaneously.
The author also contemplates the rising tension between the desire of watching the printed photographs of the dead female body and the impossibility, limited by the book’s construction, of seeing it complete.
The harshness of the used materials evokes disaffection and sordidness, contained in the original publication of the images, commenting on how veiled and inaccessible death is as well as the violent loneliness of publishing it.

Project & Images: ©Rosana Simonassi
Book Concept & Design: Verónica Fieiras
Prepress: La Troupe
Binding: Isabel Zambelli
Print: Artes Graficas Palermo
Size: 21,5cm x 28.5cm
Pages: 20
Materials: Food wrapping paper & Cyclus Offset
Limited Handmade Edition of 250
Published in Spain, 2016 by CHACO

Rosana Simonassi (Argentina), reconstruye casos que involucran la muerte de mujeres que adquirieron trascendencia gracias al registro y publicación mediática que mereció la ocasión de su muerte. En Reconstrucción, se cuestiona tanto la violencia de los medios que arrojan la imagen del cuerpo al dominio publico, como la fascinación morbosa de quien, horrorizado, la rechaza y consume al mismo tiempo.
El libro propone además una tensión entre el deseo por observar el cadáver femenino fotografiado y la imposibilidad de hacerlo completamente.
El despojo de los materiales utilizados, evoca la desafección y sordidez contenidas en la publicación original y hacen referencia a lo velado e inaccesible de la muerte.

http://blog.photoeye.com/2016/12/2016-best-books-ania-naecka-milach.html
https://americansuburbx.com/2017/01/rosana-simonassi-the-plastic-disposition-interview.html