Jill Mulleady: Fight or Flight
Laura McLean-Ferris author Michael Taussig author Ottessa Moshfegh author Laura McLean-Ferris editor Alison Coplan editor Jill Mulleady editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Swiss Institute
Publishing:7th Aug '25
£27.00
This title is due to be published on 7th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The first major monograph on Jill Mulleady, whose paintings feature humans and animals enacting their instinctive psychological reactions to ever-present threats of danger In the paintings and woodcuts of Swiss artist Jill Mulleady (born 1980), characters enact the physiological stress reactions of “fight or flight”: either adopting extreme or violent survival methods, or retreating into isolation. Mulleady's work roots out fantasies, motivations and fears in order to depict a landscape of polarization and crisis. Ancient mythologies and recent histories are reanimated in her feverish work with an enduring, twisted force. And yet, opposed and extreme, the figures and scenes featured also point to futures in which beings are pushed into marginal spaces, suggesting an ominous threat at civilization’s center. Fight or Flight is the first major monograph on Jill Mulleady, surveying her artistic output over the last 10 years. It features newly commissioned essays by curator Laura McLean-Ferris, author Ottessa Moshfegh and anthropologist Michael Taussig, and a conversation between Mosfegh and Mulleady.
ISBN: 9798987633212
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215 pages