Ruth Lauer Manenti: 4 Sides of the Table
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- ISBN 9788410290457
- Dimensions: 241 x 330mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2026
- Publisher: RM Verlag SL
- Publication City/Country: ES
- Product Form: Paperback
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An intimate reflection on loss, mourning and memory, made manifest through Manenti's spectral black-and-white photography
Upon receiving a large-format camera in 2012, the American photographer Ruth Lauer Manenti (born 1968) at last accessed a poetic sensibility she had first sought within drawing and painting. Her spectral photographs evoke the ephemeral motion of life and the vertiginous memories it impresses. In her new series, 4 Sides of The Table, made from 2022 to 2024, Manenti continues her meditation upon time's passage. The inciting image for this series emerged from an intimate, sorrowful scene: her mother's best friend, June, reading poetry as Manenti's mother lay dying in bed. In the wake of loss, Manenti found within June a maternal replacement. She began photographing June in segmented parts from various angles: hands, legs, front, back, partial views. When June's own daughter unexpectedly died, Manenti, too, became a replacement. Together, Manenti and June document the poignant work of mourning—the effort to preserve the unseen through new material forms.
