Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Our imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
In the Villa Santo Sospir, Jean Cocteau conceived his pictorial work through accumulation, inspired by Greek mythology and the Mediterranean landscape. Architecture permeates the subjects of Mauro Restiffe from a viewpoint that amplifies and reverberates the simple historical record.
Oh mio cagnetto, is the artist’s first book of writings, conceived as an artwork. It is a collection of 81 little poems that revolve around the missed and mourned figure of a puppy. It intentionally plays on the ambiguity of its nature, as both a book distributed in conventional ways and an art object.
When she started writing the Corona Tales, Chus Martínez had been weighing how people and the media were addressing the outbreak of the virus as an unprecedented disaster. One possible contribution, as curator and writer, would be to write a short story a day…
Edited by Samson Young
Texts by Karen Cheung, Alison Guh, Xiaoyu Weng, Samson Young
Designed by Dixon Chan
2025, English, 19 x 24 cm, 120 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-63-8
This monograph, published on the occasion of Young’s exhibition at SFMOMA, features two new essays by curators Karen Cheung and Alison Guh, as well as a conversation between Xiaoyu Weng and the artist that delves into the exhibition’s emotional resonance and the philosophical implications of memory, AI, and time. The publication also includes an extended note on the technical aspects of the work. The texts are accompanied by archival image collages by book designer Dixon Chan.
Intentness and Songs is a multimedia installation that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, and experiences of time. In this interconnected audiovisual landscape, Young draws on the duration and rhythm of human and generative AI memory-recall processes as the basis for polychromatic sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape. Visitors are invited to wander through pathways of wooden boards, with markings created through a mix of techniques, and 3D-printed boards, etched and embedded with objects and memories excerpted from the lives of the artist and his husband.
Photos: Dixon Chan