CLAUS BOOKS

Ines Claus views her books as a playful extension of her art practice. In 2016, she started with a series of “floorcloth books” during her master in Drawing at the KASK School of Arts in Ghent. These unique pieces consist of archive materials or limited-edition publications and showcase various techniques such as monoprints, templates and collages, as well as drawings in marker and ink. By questioning the book as a medium and by collecting and spontaneously re-organising pictures, the artist creates playful carriers of images. As in her plastic work, Claus uses her own archive of personal pictures, found images and daily sketches to make pictorial associations. Elements from magazines and books are contrasted with contemporary popular and graphical elements and eventually mixed into a potential narrative. The CLAUS BOOKS catalogue currently contains a collection of around thirty-five (series of) original handmade books and 15 printed publications of exhibitions. For Seconde Peau, she also collaborated with Laurence Plumier to create paper artwork and crochet sculptures around paintings that focus on the subversive phenomenon of furries, who use a second skin to show/hide their identity.