Evol/Love
Nibor Traaw
ISBN 978-908-2936-29-2
Book design by Vilmantas Žumbys
Stichting Mei, Amstelveen 2020
19.6 x 19.6 x 2.3 cm / 7.7 x 7.7 x 0.9 in
200 pages (160 stills)
Japanese bound
Offset with screen printed cover on pink paper
Edition of 666
Evol/Love is a project in three parts: a billboard series, installation and publication connecting 160 subtitled movie stills that all contain the word Love. A collage of voices and definitions arranged in alphabetical order, from ‘Love is where you find it’ (A: A Date with Judy, US 1948, 00:22:37) to ‘But even if it’s a little late, love has a way of coming back to you’(Y: Yeonae/Love is a Crazy Thing, KR 2005, 01:38:02), but mirrored and read backwards to sound like its antonym: evil.
Selected as one of the Best Dutch Book Designs of 2020 (also by the student jury) and as one of The Most Beautiful Books of 2020 in Lithuania and shortlisted for the 2022 Best Book Design from All Over the World
K. Keijer, ‘Alles draait om gespiegelde tweetallen in dit boek over de liefde’, Het Parool, 10 June 2021, p 35
Sophie Sanders, ‘Liefde in de publieke arena’, Metropolis M, 14 February 2020 / ‘Love in Public’, Hugo Zorn, 13 April 2020
Evol/Love is available at Stedelijk Museum Bookshop, Amsterdam; BOOKS@RET, Rotterdam; Six Chairs Books, Vilnius; Walther König MQ Wien, Vienna; a.p. books, Berlin; einbuch.haus, Berlin; Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin; Rile*, Brussels; Whitechapel Bookstore, London; After 8 Books, Paris; Christophe Daviet-Théry/Bookadviser, Paris; delpire & co, Paris; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Beletage Art Space, Zürich; Punch Books, Bucharest; Post Bookstore, Tokyo; Temporary Unit, Singapore; Jiazazhi Books, Ningbo; Miriam Gallery, New York; Printed Matter, New York; artbook@MoMA PS 1, New York; Inga Books, Chicago
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