The New Curator

Caption as image

The New Curator, published by Laurence King, showcases interview with 26 international curators. With an emphasis on the ‘now’, this book examines the variety and richness of curating practices today, and how the traditional remit of a curator’s role has blurred.

  • Interviews include public commissions by Art Angel, through to more experimental projects such as the ‘Ghetto Biennale’ in Haiti, or the Rhizome digital archive.

    Working with rich content — with various image resolution — we were commissioned to create a visual statement in a genre that is typically academic. Rectangular captions become the key organising approach, each image being treated as a piece of art whilst the cover references the protective cardboard corners used on artworks and paintings.

    To introduce each curator, captions obscure their faces to highlight another key theme — the invisible face behind the project. Layouts were composed with care and detail, an exercise in the curation itself. 

    Done at Bibliothèque Design.