SOMEWHERE/ELESWHERE$95
            Rhea Karam 
            2023









Somewhere/Elsewhere is a continuation of the artist book Parallel Planes (Rhea Karam, 2022). It further explores the notion of lines and borders within the urban landscape. The unique structure of this book leads the viewer into a journey where they can navigate city streets through a series of photographs of textured architectural planes coexisting side by side. Each page acts like a layer that can be peeled back or overlapped, allowing the viewer to interact and construct their own visual landscape within an infinite amount of possible compositions. (There is no specific direction or order in which the book should be viewed, drawing a parallel with the abstract notion of constructed identity and displacement.)

This title is held in the collections of:
Harvard University
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
University of Michigan
Rhode Island Schoool of Design (RISD)
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Walker Art Center
Yale University
The Clark Institute
Brooklyn Public Library