Angela Su: Melencolia Discount

Angela Su: Melencolia is published in conjunction with the artist s eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere. The richly illustrated book provides an overview of the artist s work since 2013 which includes installations, speculative docufiction videos, and drawings and hair embroideries of composite cyborgian bodies. The title is a tribute to Albrecht Durer s engraving Melencolia I (1514). In medieval philosophy, melancholy is associated with insanity, and late in the Renaissance it was also linked to creative genius. This print is a divining rod for understanding Su s varied practice. Weaving a spiritual dimension in works that veer into strange and uncomfortable spheres, she re-envisions interlocking symbolisms and expands into the mediums and realms drawn from the modern and contemporary archive.