Gestures and Relations
Yvonne Shaw
Category: Photography / Art / Limited Edition
Publisher: Yvonne Shaw
Size: 196 x 267mm
Pages: 136
ISBN: 978-0-473-73967-6
Edition: 75 (Limited copies)
Format: Limited edition case-bound book
Binding: Section-sewn
Cover: Wibalin, screen-printed
Paper: Colorplan endpapers; 150gsm Satin digital print text
Features: Five inserted ribbons to divide chapters
Printing: New Zealand
Gestures and Relations presents photographs of psychodrama sessions as a novel form of memoir, mapping family systems and interpersonal relations. In these sessions, protagonists concretize moments from their past using people, chairs, and props, creating transient scenes that reveal the structures of memory and relationship. The work explores the blurred line between lived experience and imaginative reconstruction, offering a visual record of intergenerational and social forces at play. The resulting photographs provide a unique lens on memory, identity, and family dynamics, capturing moments that might otherwise remain inexpressible.
This limited edition is a case-bound, section-sewn photography book with a screen-printed Wibalin cover and Colorplan endpapers. The 150gsm satin digital print pages beautifully render the dark, black-background photographs, allowing subtle tonal variations and deep shadows to shine with clarity and richness. Five inserted ribbons divide the chapters, while the careful choice of materials enhances the tactile and visual quality of the book, making each image and moment feel vivid and present.