Malanka - Yelena Yemchuk public space 198 Wood Joints (an inventory)

198 Wood Joints (an inventory) is the first ever published compilation of wood joints technics of that size

Spreads of the printed issues are created from high resolution RGB photography – one image capture per page – made from the original untrimmed press sheets

the typographical world of ideas of the 1920s avant-garde is once again brought back to life

Jahrhundert

Additional works by contemporary artists and designers show that political awareness does not limit creativity

Malanka - Yelena Yemchuk public space 198 Wood Joints (an inventory)Malanka is Ukrainian American visual artist, Yelena Yemchuks sixth photobook. Like all bodies of work by Yemchuk, Malanka is personal, feminine, surrealist, and touched by a spell. The eponymous tradition is a pre christian, heavily incantatory folklore ritual that takes place on January 14, the Old New Year in the Julian calendar. It is celebrated by ethnic Romanians in western Ukraine, and its origins are largerly unknown. Yemchuk traveled to Crasna