I am happy to let you know about this review/article by Gregor Auenhammer who had a look at my book “FRAIL” and recommends it in the BÜCHER (Book) section of this weekend’s “Album”, part of one of the biggest Austrian newspapers “Der Standard”.

Click below to open the full article.

Thank you,
)( Lia S.

The book is called “FRAIL”!

If you click here you will see the official Newsletter, that was sent out on tuesday, for the book release.

The book – in its two versions – is now available worldwide (Asia, Europe, USA, UK, Australia etc etc etc) – and it is available online
as well as offline in the Impossible Project Space Tokyo, New York, Vienna, in the Westlicht in Vienna and will be added to other selected book stores specialized in art and photography in the next weeks (if you are interested, let me know).

The book “FRAIL” is available as Standard Edition:

And it is available as a “FRAIL”-Special Edition:

“The Special Edition of “FRAIL” is limited to 50 pieces only. Each book-ensemble is a unique item, carefully hand-made, signed, stamped and numbered personally by Lia Sáile and garnished with several beautiful details:”

•
WRAPPED IN A UNIQUE VINTAGE FABRIC BOOK SLIP
PERSONALLY HAND SELECTED FABRICS, CAREFULLY HANDCRAFTED TO PROTECT THE BOOK.
The book slip is functional and can be used freely.

•
1 X SIGNED ORIGINAL
IMPOSSIBLE PHOTO FROM THE SERIES’ INSERTED INTO THE BOOK SLIP

•
SIGNED, STAMPED & NUMBERED
BY LIA SÁILE

EUR 300
GBP 369 | JPY 36,750

(There are most copies in the European Warehouse (you can change the shop location on the top right when you are in the Impossible Online Shop) to see other versions of the Special Editions. But it is best to buy them in the correct shop.)

Thank you as always for your kind and intense support the past years and for following my work, it is appreciated and this maybe is a way for me to give something back to you, something you have back at home, you can have a look at in your hands and feel the pages and really touch it – not just staring at copies on the screen. I am very happy to share these big news with you and hope you can enjoy it too!

Have a nice evening,

)( Lia S.

I am overly excited to announce that on the

7th of December
in Vienna
then in Tokyo, NYC, Berlin & online worldwide 

something wonderful in my little career will happen! It has to stay a secret for now but within the next days I will fill you in on the details and exciting news which I am bursting to share with you! So check in here for some news – the website will (if time allows next to all the preparations) be updated accordingly of course and some related links will be provided.

Hope you are all well out there,
thanks for staying in touch!

You will hear from me in the next days!

)( Lia S.

Dearreaders, watchers, followers and friends,

find some new images online here at Scattered Sea / Photography / Mundane III
Thanks for following my work, posts and news closely,

some of you have been with me for almost 9 years of my youth/teen-period
until today and indeed I am thankful and full of respect of all those
who invested so much time into supporting me.
Thanks!

)( Lia S.

its time. Absolutely.  Its time for an update

* So I have been working in my studio space in Vienna a lot the past months. I finished a sculpture-project called “LAYERS: I” (at least the first 8 sculptures are finished and ready to be shown/exhibited/sold) and am already organizing for “LAYERS: II” – buying materials and sketching.
The project was started in early December last year, the first object was finished shortly before christmas. I will post some process and final pictures of them soon.

* Also I have started to organize all my works from the earliest point of my career 5 years ago until now – sorting all of them digitally into folders, labeling them, assigning them to categories and writing down all the informations to each project – the result is that one is totally surprised by the amount of work one already has produced, it is really nice to see how far one has come and to understand the own working pattern and the direction one is going. It helps to plan ahead as well and to get a broader understanding of the recurring themes and subjects one analyses and deals with.

* I started and continued working on 4 video projects, some of them actually dating back some time ago (2007…) . One has the working titles “The Mountain Emerges” and “The Mountain Hides” dealing with Asian aesthetics and “Entschleunigung” (a German term describing the counter-part of speed, meaning that it slows down, takes speed. It is also used especially in a social context, like in the context of stimulus satiation, fastness of daily routine, stress etc.) .

* The second one has no graspable title yet, so far I referr to it only as “Selbst-Freie Bewegung” (a non existant word-composite in German, meaning something like “Self-Free Motion”) in which the video camera observes “free” motions that “happen” in nature and city life, seemingly on their own and certainly without “purpose”.

* The third video work is rather old and ongoing, still in the phase of being collected and is basically a collection of textiles in a living space context but visible to the public – they are portrayed like they have a life of their own. So far it is referred to as “The Curtain series“.

* A more abstract video project goes by “Openings” and deals with light on hard opaque impenetrable surfaces and how shadows and/or light beams “open” them up.

* I also kind of finished a photo manipulation series called “Closed House” that I might show online soon.

**

Within the next months there will be a group exhibition in Nice/FR about Polaroids ( a traveling exhibition, going also to Italy) where 2 Polaroids and also a super 8 film about The Impossible Project Factory will be shown. You can see them here: Super 8 Movies.

Also I will probably have an email-correspondence/Interview about my work and my thesis/dissertation on Polaroid in an Austrian online publication called MedienImpulse widely spread

and read by the media studies intellectuals here. This is not settled yet though, its in the process…we will see.

If you have questions about my work, would like to work with me, are interested in purchasing art works etc., please feel free to leave a comment or contact me via my email address at any time.

So far so good. I hope everyone is well and happy – thanks for your interest in my work over the years and thanks for coming back.

All the best,
)( Lia S.

30. 3. – 15. 5. 2011

LANG HANS GALERIE
Vodičkova 37
Praha 1
CZ 110 00
Czech Republic
e-mail: info@langhansgalerie.cz

Today I am happy to let you know that 8 of my Polaroids awarded with the C ACTION GRANT by C Photo Magazine are currently exhibited among other fantastic grant-recievers in Prague, CZ, in the LANG HANS GALERIE.
The exhibition is called “FOTO VIRUS / C ACTION” and features the following grant recievers,
as posted by ART COMMISSIONERS:

Ivorypress in collaboration with the Langhans Galerie Praha, Prague, Czech Republic, will show from the 30th of March until 15th of May, 2011, the exhibition C Action Photo Virus. Curator Walter Keller has selected seventeen artists

awarded with the Grants of C Photo: the C Action project during its first cicle from 2005 to 2010. A selection of these series will be on the walls, and more than 3000 printed pages about the worldwide photo scene in ten big books to view and read. C Photo, the top of the top publication on photography, is visiting Prague

for the first time! C Photo, Ivorypress, Madrid, volume 1 – 10, (2005 – 2010)Photographers: Veru Iché, Sun Hongbin, Marie Taillefer, Lovisa Ringborg, Kyungwoo Chun, Julia Peirone,  Giacomo Costa, Aniu, Alexander Gronsky, Victor Albrow, Eustaquio Neves, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Flore-Aël Surun, Lia Sáile, Rong Rong + Inri.

the Super 8 movies (3 of them) that were created for The Impossible Project in Jan/Feb 2010 last year are shown during a concert at the PHOTO SPRING FESTIVAL in BEIJING/Peking, China, this year. I am very excited about that!

Thanks for that.
)( Lia S.

Working with her (for example in my SILENCE series 2007 or filming a few of her performances and works in progress) since 5-6 years by now, I am happy to show a few new images of the recent event.
I documented one of the first performances of INTENTS.

Find her profile attached below, also to see more photos of the performance that I took in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, a few weeks ago.

If you are interested, here is a video from 2 years back that we did together of her her “action”-theatre-preparation in the middle of Austrian nowhere at the coldest day of winter: VIDEO “WÜSTE”

Hope everyone is well!
)( Lia S.

Thank you!

)( Lia S.

A live-”ballet” on the open street in playgrounds, soccer places and between the houses.
These things just happen.