Practise on Instagram: "Out today: Titus Kaphar & Dwayne Betts: Redaction W.W. Norton & Co. @w.w.norton A remarkable project that I was honoured to design together with Forest Young @emcray and Amanda Barrow @art.mandee and in very close collaboration with artist Titus Kaphar #tituskaphar and poet/lawyer @dwaynebetts plus Natalie Renee and Brianna Walker at Kaphar Studio, not to mention a crucial partnership with lithographer Sebastiaan Hanekroot at @colourandbooks and Rossella Castello @castellorossella along with everyone at @diekeureprinting. The aim for Redaction was to find a bold, tactile, yet deceptively simple way of bringing together a complex set of contents, contexts, and materials. An artist (Titus Kaphar) and his paintings, a poet (Reginald Dwayne Betts) and his poetry, and their collaborative series of screen prints (Redaction) that examine the issue of money bail in the United States, where people who are arrested, but unable to afford bail, remain incarcerated even though they have been neither tried nor convicted. The prints, originally exhibited at MoMA PS1 @momaps1, combine Titus’s etched portraits of incarcerated women and men with Dwayne’s poetry derived from selectively redacted legal documents, typeset in a project-specific “Redaction” font designed by Forest Young with Jeremy Mickel @mckltype. “Redaction as a tool of revelation,” as Dwayne describes it. With black cloth, black and white foil stamping, multiple paper stocks, and special inks, the result is a mass-produced artist's book. A core idea was to reproduce the artworks with a process that mirrored the original artistic process, rather than regular CMYK four-colour printing. The silkscreened artworks were separated back out by Colour and Books, and processed for offset lithography with white and metallic inks on Fedrigoni Sirio Black paper at Die Keure. Some separations were maintained as dividing sections, printed on translucent vellum to deconstruct and expose the Redaction print layers. The artworks are deliberately printed on single-sided sheets: as Titus has said, “we expect folks to cut it out and put it on the wall.”"

381 Likes, 31 Comments - Practise (@practisetheory) on Instagram: "Out today: Titus Kaphar & Dwayne Betts: Redaction W.W. Norton & Co. @w.w.norton A remarkable pr..."