Project: Associative Drifts
Author: Ekta (Daniel Götesson)
Client: LL'Editions
Type: Publication Design
Year: 2021

Associated Drifts is an artist’s book by Ekta (Daniel Götesson). The artist approached Lundgren+Lindqvist and LL’Editions proposing to do a zine, using a series of photographs that the artist has made during the process of preparing an exhibition at the Market Art Fair in Stockholm. Lundgren+Lindqvist reenvisioned the project, proposing instead to make a book object, and treat the artist’s snapshots in a rawer way, staying true to the artist’s way of making them.

The resulting book object collects a total of 36 digital c-prints made by the artist. The prints are wrapped in silk screened tissue paper, with texts (in Swedish) by Nina Bondeson and Henrik Björk Wigartz. Accompanying each set is a Ziploc bag containing fragments from the artist’s studio. The collected items that make up the book are housed in a hot-foiled rigid box.

The book was released in a numbered edition of 100. A special edition of 6 was also published, with a differing foil treatment on the box’s lid, containing an original drawing by the artist, with each box signed and numbered by the artist.

Linjen vill ha
en forskande blick, ett tänkande öga
linjen vill dragas, vill drapera, linjera, färglägga
ge linjen tid
ge linjen mer tid
ge handen tid och mer tid
ge ögat tid och mer tid
ge blicken tid och mer tid

(An excerpt from Nina Bondesson’s essay)