DECEPTIONS
DECEPTIONS
Deceptions, Ye Zeng Yi Li's third publication, the result of a collaboration between Grani Edizioni and LatoPaper, indulges the artist's nonlinear attitude, spreading his work across multiple levels to show it from different perspectives. The portraits skinned on expired 4x5 Polaroids, the urban scenes with a bucolic soul, and the drawings traced on the film itself and printed in the darkroom have common denominators that basculate, do not stay in place, accompany us, pandering to our expectations only to abandon us at the last crossroads, the most defiled one, where the barrens of alienation urge care, evasion and expiation, and where deception returns a naive nighttime trick.
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Photo Ye Zeng Yi Li
Idea and Project Valentino Barachini for Grani edizioni
in collaboration with “Paper Side”
text curation Antonio Cecchi
translations by Massimiliano Barachini
Language Italian/English
Paper Pigna found 70gr
font Helvetica
Closed format 22 x 30 cm
Over 150 color photos
Each copy contains a booklet with 14 photos
printed on semi-transparent colored paper.
99 signed and numbered copies including.
15 de luxe containing a handkerchief with a print
Printed in Livorno February 2025
Price of trade copies 68 euros
Price of de luxe copies 93 euro
Shipping cost is excluded
DECEPTIONS
Deceptions, Ye Zeng Yi Li's third publication, the result of a collaboration between Grani Edizioni and LatoPaper, indulges the artist's nonlinear attitude, spreading his work across multiple levels to show it from different perspectives. The portraits skinned on expired 4x5 Polaroids, the urban scenes with a bucolic soul, and the drawings traced on the film itself and printed in the darkroom have common denominators that basculate, do not stay in place, accompany us, pandering to our expectations only to abandon us at the last crossroads, the most defiled one, where the barrens of alienation urge care, evasion and expiation, and where deception returns a naive nighttime trick.
C.
Photo Ye Zeng Yi Li
Idea and Project Valentino Barachini for Grani edizioni
in collaboration with “Paper Side”
text curation Antonio Cecchi
translations by Massimiliano Barachini
Language Italian/English
Paper Pigna found 70gr
font Helvetica
Closed format 22 x 30 cm
Over 150 color photos
Each copy contains a booklet with 14 photos
printed on semi-transparent colored paper.
99 signed and numbered copies including.
15 de luxe containing a handkerchief with a print
Printed in Livorno February 2025
Price of trade copies 68 euros
Price of de luxe copies 93 euro
Shipping cost is excluded
DECEPTIONS
Deceptions, Ye Zeng Yi Li's third publication, the result of a collaboration between Grani Edizioni and LatoPaper, indulges the artist's nonlinear attitude, spreading his work across multiple levels to show it from different perspectives. The portraits skinned on expired 4x5 Polaroids, the urban scenes with a bucolic soul, and the drawings traced on the film itself and printed in the darkroom have common denominators that basculate, do not stay in place, accompany us, pandering to our expectations only to abandon us at the last crossroads, the most defiled one, where the barrens of alienation urge care, evasion and expiation, and where deception returns a naive nighttime trick.
C.
Photo Ye Zeng Yi Li
Idea and Project Valentino Barachini for Grani edizioni
in collaboration with “Paper Side”
text curation Antonio Cecchi
translations by Massimiliano Barachini
Language Italian/English
Paper Pigna found 70gr
font Helvetica
Closed format 22 x 30 cm
Over 150 color photos
Each copy contains a booklet with 14 photos
printed on semi-transparent colored paper.
99 signed and numbered copies including.
15 de luxe containing a handkerchief with a print
Printed in Livorno February 2025
Price of trade copies 68 euros
Price of de luxe copies 93 euro
Shipping cost is excluded