Gali Popper's Books

The images in Gali Popper's books are on the verge of disappearing: thin pencil drawings, coal paintings, or photographs magnified on the brink of dissolving. In Look It Is Night Up There Popper captures traces imprinted on white pillowcases after waking up, alongside drawings of fading dreams. In When You Grow Up You Will Visit Here Too and in Maybe We'll Come Back Here One of These Days she produces layers of texts taken from postcards her mother sent at the end of first grade. She places blue or black copy paper between the pages, which absorbs her drawing actions on both sides, to produce a layered texture. First of All, Bring the Atlas is made of enlarged stamps glued to postcards from her father's album, creating abstract images resembling her drawings. And in Green Cow Blue Cow, she copies fingerprints and grease stains on pages of food recipes from her mother's book. The stains, letters, verbal gestures, and scanned surfaces, create a space to trace the Self that remembers and creates, through which parental love continues to flow, from the drawing to the reader.

31.10.2024