Artist
Joselito Verschaeve
Joselito Verschaeve’s (b. 1996) work conceals - and sometimes reveals - mysterious, seemingly simple situations. His images are carefully select-ed and arranged in a rhythmic pattern just as a poet or a short novel writer deliberately chooses and positions his words. Verschaeve chooses specific signifiers, which he re-contextualises into a personal library of images. – (‘DO IT’, MA Expo, 2021)
"My work leans on day to day encounters that are or turn narrative driven. With the idea of building an archive which can fit different themes while maintaining a certain interchangeability. With this archive gradually growing it’s possible to move around images and create new narratives."
Portfolio: Joselito Verschaeve
My work leans on day to day encounters that are or turn narrative driven. With the idea of building an archive which can fit different themes while maintaining a certain interchangeability. With this archive gradually growing it’s possible to move around images and create new narratives.
Bebe Blanco Agterberg, a Dutch visual-storyteller working with photography, has a body of work that perfectly fits the book form. In 2019, Bebe took part in a Void’s activity that paired photographers and designers to make a zine in a day. Her politicized work stands out as strong and appealing. Her dealings with the Post-truth Era make the work relevant to our contemporary days.
Tereza Kozinc, who we first met in a book-making workshop, has a deeply personal, experimental work. Part of her practice is transforming it into zines and artist books.
Exploring the notions of ‘home’, Kozinc has an appealing diaristic approach that obscures the limits of reality and fiction. Joselito Verschaeve’s photography is technically meticulous. His editing process is very well-thought-out. He carefully plays with simple and banal subjects, elevating and re-signifying them. We were lucky enough to have Joselito as a trainee at Void in Athens. During his stay in Greece, he developed hand-to-hand with Void’s editor Myrto Steirou his forthcoming debut book that will be soon published by Void.
The subjectivity of the British photographer Emily Graham’s practice is what initially dragged Void’s attention. Her work leaves space for the audience’s interpretation, with rich and complex metaphorical potential. Her project ‘The Blindest Man’ is a captivating story about a real, unsolved treasure-hunting mystery. Open to interpretation and bringing much more questions than answers, ‘The Blindest Man’ will be Graham’s first book, to be published by Void in 2022.
Rocco Venezia is an Italian visual artist working mainly with photography. The subject of his works originates from a personal interest in literature as well as a certain awareness of European political and economic situations. Matters well-developed in his first book, ‘Nekyia’ (Witty Books).
Our selected talents of 2021 have, if not all, most of the attributes we look for in our books: well-defined personal approach to photography; a work open to interpretation, raising more questions than answers; and a creative blur of the frontiers between reality and fiction.
Being an independent publishing house, Void wishes to give voice to artists with bodies of work that might struggle to find venue elsewhere, that being due to the nature of their (dark) subjects, the experimental approach to their practice, or even the artist’s career moment. With this in mind, Void is extremely proud of fostering the photographer’s debut books.