Join us this coming Friday for the launch of Rowena Hughes’ ELASTICITY, FRACTURE & FLOW, and Florian Roithmayr’s WAVES, both published by Daedalus Street Press.

Elasticity, Fracture & Flow is a form of palimpsest. Extracting pages from old physics books and then printing or drawing on them, Rowena Hughes writes a form of concrete poetry through selecting phrases from the original text. Layering different forms of knowledge and ways of understanding the world, she melds a rational, empirical and purportedly objective way with a more intuitive, emotional approach.

Florian Roithmayr’s Waves is the first of a series of books where he is tracing natural phenomena. A compendium of texts, it is bringing together over two hundred writers whose different voices form a new narrative on waves, how they are imagined across different contexts and how they are described as energy, force, image, attitude, or ambition.
Excerpts from Waves will be read by Sophy Downes and Florian Roithmayr.

Rowena Hughes studied at Goldsmiths (BA) and the Slade (MFA). She lives and works mostly in Athens, sometimes in London. Her work is currently on view at Cloud Seven in Brussels as part of Inaspettatamente. Her book works have been exhibited at Belmacz, the ICA, BreeseLittle Galleries, London; Gebruder Lehman, Berlin; Arch, Athens; and Fotogalerie, Vienna amongst others.

Florian Roithmayr initially trained as a theatre designer in Germany before studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths and the Slade in London. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Reading. Exhibitions of his work include solo presentations at Camden Arts Centre; Bloomberg space, London; and Kettles’ Yard, Cambridge.

Sophy Downes is a Temporary Teaching Fellow in Classical Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and visits Athens often.