First published 2024
The source provided describes an art exhibition catalog rather than the novel "Thin Skin" by Chloe Aridjis. The catalog features thirty-six artists exploring boundaries between figuration and abstraction, curated by Jennifer Higgie. Artists use absurdity, slapstick, and dreamlike logic to examine their relationship with the world. Some depict bodies interacting with psyche, landscape, and animals. The exhibition embraces "thin places," ancient locations where spirits gather and heaven meets earth. Aridjis contributed a specially commissioned short story to this illustrated catalog. The exhibition examines hypersensitivity to surroundings, the delicate membranes separating body from mind and environment, and thresholds between consciousness and dreams, reason and madness, laughter and tears.
Genres: fiction, art, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: hypersensitivity, thresholds
120 pages · Hardcover · Monash University Publishing