MUNCH Museum, 2025, 48 pages, hardcover, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
- Ali Smith is deeply inspired by Edvard Munch. Using an innovative essayistic approach, Smith intertwines incisive visual analyses with personal narratives and reflections on ecology and politics, connecting Munch's art to contemporary realities and alternative dimensions
- Originally written for the exhibition Trembling Earth. The exhibition was acknowledged as the most important exhibition in the US in 2023 by the New York Times
- Includes 20 works of art by Edvard Munch
"Then the voice from nowhere carried on talking about Munch, like my mother of all people knew about Munch, like she knew I was looking at a picture right now, like she knew about the power crisis and the international unrest and the climate ruination in a world she'd left thirty years ago. Like she knew it all. "