JASON FULFORD
THE HEART IS A SANDWICH

Site-specific installation at Micamera from April 28 through June 3
opening on Thursday April 27 from 7 pm / the artist will attend the opening reception

When I notice an unusual odour the first thing I want to know is what is the source of the odour
– Adam Gilders

The Heart is a Sandwich, the new body of work by American artist Jason Fulford, will launch at Micamera on April 27, 2023. The work is a collection of twelve stories drawn from a decade of encounters with Italy, including meetings with ball-breaking bakers, an exploding museum cellar (the GAM in Milan), Aldo Rossi’s notes on happiness, the center of the Earth, and Guido Guidi’s garage. The book, newly released by MACK, takes the form of a novel-sized paperback. You can find it here

The exhibition will be displayed in an installation inspired by renaissance sinopia, preparatory drawing used for fresco painting; art historians use it to study the genesis of works or afterthoughts. Fulford will freely use drawings to hint at inspirations or references of the actual work exhibited on the gallery walls.
Fulford’s pictures are deceptively simple, imbued with a gift for composition that brings forth metaphors and meaning. Known internationally for his skill as an editor, Fulford uses layered articulation and careful sequencing to suggest ambiguous meaning and invite endless reading.

In every life, some things are more important than others. So is in a bookshop and gallery’s life and so is this exhibition.

The book:

MACK, 2023
Softcover, 13,5 x 20 cm
320 pages, color photographs
English

Get your copy here

JASON FULFORD (1973) is a photographer, co-founder of J&L Books, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
His monographs include Sunbird (Bird Entertainment, 2000), Crushed (J&L Books, 2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (The Ice Plant, 2006), The Mushroom Collector (The Soon Institute, 2010 and 2014), Hotel Oracle (The Soon Institute, 2013), Contains: 3 Books (The Soon Institute, 2016), The Medium is a Mess (Studio Blanco, 2018), Clayton’s Ascent (TBW, 2018) and Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020).
He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of This Equals That (Aperture, 2014), Find Colors (Phaidon and Whitney Museum, 2018), A Pile of Leaves (Phaidon and Whitney Museum, 2019), and Offline Activities (The Ice Plant, 2020). Together with Gregory Halpern he co-edited The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014).
Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association.