Daniel Gordon: Still Life with Eggs and Avocados, 2018

Aperture is pleased to release this very special limited-edition print, accompanied by the upcoming and highly collectible limited-edition pop-up book, Houseplants.

A work of art itself, this pop-up book renders Daniel Gordon’s sculptural forms into a new layer of materiality, animating them in pop-up performance. Inspired by his interest in the popularity of certain subjects on the internet—houseplants among them—Gordon meticulously cuts up pictures found online to create sculptural and fantastical still lifes. He uses photography not to show reality, but to present a new version of it. “Without seams and faults and limitations, my project would be very different,” Gordon says. “The seamlessness of the ethers is boring to me, but the materialization of that ether, I think, can be very interesting.” His pieces are a perfect marriage of digital and analog processes and of high and low artistic references. Complicating what is understood as sculpture, photography, painting, and the cutout, this limited-edition print, and pop-up book set brings Gordon’s art practice to life, both in your hands and on the wall.