Jessica EkomaneI’m so happy and proud to finally announce it: I made a book. I called it Double Entendre, and it is out now!
As a kid, I lived my entire life through books. Becoming a writer was my first dream. I remember coveting my aunt’s heavy and loud monster of a typewriter at the time. The summer I turned about 10, I secretly locked myself in her room to write my first epic grand classic novel. I never finished it, but the dream remained.
While what I’m publishing today isn’t a novel (yet), Double Entendre offers an equally meaningful long-form conversation with theorist and curator Antonia Majaca about my work, followed by a reprint of a text I wrote for Berlin Art Week 2023, the year I spent my Villa Romana fellowship in Florence.
Where to find it: It is available now at the bookshops of Hamburger Bahnhof (via Walther Koenig bookshop), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and HKW Berlin (via Archive Souq) in Berlin. Or order it online via Archive Books’ website (https://www.archivebooks.org/double-entendre/). I will also be carrying some around at the next gigs.
Published by Archive Books & Villa Romana, as part of the yearly Villa Romana Fellows publication. Heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in making this a reality.
Softcover, English, 96 pages
Books photos by Giulia del Piero.
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