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Pages: 120, hardcover
Format: 28 x 20.5 cm
Languages: English, German
Graphic design: Rob van Hoesel
ISBN 978-94-93363-44-1
Co-published by Éditions Images Vevey and The Eriskay Connection
Special Mention, Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026
For five nights, Mario Wezel filmed his second child’s weaning with a thermal camera. The parental bed becomes a silent interstellar landscape, tracing the physical and emotional choreography of everyday parenting in an almost cinematic layout rhythm. By repurposing a technology associated with surveillance, Wezel turns it into the instrument of an intimate story about attachment, exhaustion and care.
“Our bed transforms into an interstellar space where mother, father and child orbit one another,” the artist writes. “Bound by an invisible gravitational force, their trajectories readjust and a new form of closeness emerges. »
Special Mention, Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026
For five nights, Mario Wezel filmed his second child’s weaning with a thermal camera. The parental bed becomes a silent interstellar landscape, tracing the physical and emotional choreography of everyday parenting in an almost cinematic layout rhythm. By repurposing a technology associated with surveillance, Wezel turns it into the instrument of an intimate story about attachment, exhaustion and care.
“Our bed transforms into an interstellar space where mother, father and child orbit one another,” the artist writes. “Bound by an invisible gravitational force, their trajectories readjust and a new form of closeness emerges. »
