Catharsis

2024

Self-published artist's book
Edition of Alison Flora's sketchbooks
Preface by Thomas Havet, director of DS Galerie
Drawings made by Alison Flora between 2020 and 2023
Graphic design and layout by Laura Zanti
offset printing, colours, 92 pages, 15 x 21 cm
200 copies
Toulouse
With the support of the Occitanie Region, production aid 2023

Catharsis is a self-published edition born from a desire to encapsulate within a book an obsessive and daily drawing practice. A true purifying act, the practice of drawing allows for the expiation of states of mind, the exorcism of moods, and a return to the Self. The A5 format edition comprises 192 pages of drawings taken from sketchbooks, created between 2020 and 2023. A first edition dedicated to these drawings was published in 2019 by Goswell Road, a self-managed artistic space in Paris.

It emerges from a desire to share these new daily drawings in a book with a mysterious, almost occult graphic design.

Extract from the book presentation, Alison-flora.com