Nicholas Muellner’s most recent image-text book journeys through shifting tableaux of exile and solitude in the digital age. Seductive, disorienting, informative and allegorical, In Most Tides an Island is at once a glimpse of contemporary post-Soviet queer life, a meditation on solitude and desire, and an inquiry into the nature of photography and poetry in a world consumed by cruelty, longing, resignation and hope. This work emerged from two very different impulses: to witness the lives of closeted gay men in provincial Russia, and to compose the gothic tale of a solitary woman on a remote tropical island. The book challenges photographic and literary conventions, collapsing portraiture and landscape, documentary and fiction, metaphor and description into the artist’s distinct form of hybrid narrative. Five years in the making, In Most Tides an Island is the long-awaited follow-up to Muellner’s critically acclaimed books, The Amnesia Pavilions (2011) and The Photograph Commands Indifference (2009). Thanks to Self Publish Be Happy (London).
344 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm, hardcover, Self Publish Be Happy (London).