Upcoming book with Maria Blondeel

The artist’s publication ‘95G_DOKA’, to be published by Posture Editions in November 2026, features a series of photograms by Maria Blondeel.
The 72 photograms were created by placing objects on light-sensitive diazo paper and exposing them to daylight in Maria’s studio. Where the objects shield the paper from sunlight, the characteristic purple-blue colour emerges. 
The objects that Maria places in the space and on the paper are not coincidentally photographic props. Darkroom equipment such as developing tanks, tongs, clamps, negative sheets and glass plates, as well as electrical cables and chains, film loaders, spotlights, boxes, tubes and storage systems, are deployed 72 times as extras in a ballet on paper. The book aims to document Maria’s artistic processes and to explore the broader conceptual framework within which the work is situated. 
With texts by Frank Maes and Léon von Prada.

The book will be available during the exhibitions:

95G_DOKA (G-Project)
Convent, Platform for Contemporary Art Ghent
14  Nov–20  Dec  2026
Opening: Fri. 13 Nov, from 5 pm to 8 pm
Book launch: Sun.  13  Dec at 3 pm
Finissage with nocturne: Mon. 21 Dec, from 4 pm to 10 pm
Exhibition open on Fri. & Sun., from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm

95G_DOKA_ANNEX (72 Diazotypieën)
Vierkante Zaal (Annex), d’Academie Beeld, Sint-Niklaas
14  Nov–20  Dec  2026
Opening: Sat. 31 Oct, at 4 pm
Talk G-project: Tue.  1  Dec at 8 pm
Workshop Artist books: Wed. 16 Dec
Exhibition open on Wed. 2 pm–5 pm and on Sat. & Sun. from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm

Maria Blondeel in her studio in Ghent (1997) at work in Kunstenaarstraat whilst programming the interactive light and sound installation for the Axis project at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore). 
Photography Marc De Clercq