Love mail is a collective project. We ran it in 2008, copying and pasting emails that got our attention. Unlike other spam messages, these ones were extremely simple: a few words of text linked to a website, with such an interesting two-way illusions trick that we didn’t like to delete them. After a year of copy and paste, we’ve decided to make a selection to realize a publication. We wanted to create something from what is usually thrown away, ignored, and refused. We’ve decontextualized the messages, printing them on coloured paper, without referring to the computer world, so that everybody was free to interpret them personally.
Love Mail has been realized in a numbered offset limited edition of 200 copies, A5 sized, 24 pages, printed on three different colors of paper. (blu, pink and yellow).
Books printed by Grafiche Leone.
© Photos by Giulio Boem
We displayed our project at XYZ, a Treviso based applied arts gallery. The exhibition was set up with ten 50×70 and 70×100 wood totems, with a 200 copies limited edition of books. The exhibition vernissage was in October the 28th, 2009. We’ve created the exhibition poster with Lorenzo Vitturi, using the same totems as the exhibition.
© Photos by Lorenzo Vitturi