Essays by Judith Flanders, Trevor Keeble, Rachael Thomas

This is the first monograph devoted to the work of Catherine Bertola and spans six years of the artist’s practice from early series of works such as Smile (1998), where she transforms her own dental x-ray in photograms, to Switched (1999) a collection of light switch prints taken from her own home. The publication also features the site-specific installations in empty and abandoned domestic environments, where Bertola works with the remaining fabric and dust of spaces, to recreate and introduce decorative patterns that suggest the previous inhabitants and life of the buildings. The work is contextualised by essays from three different perspectives, art history, social history and design history that draw on the different aspects of Bertola’s practice and place the work in a broad critical framework.