The Sapling Reading Room is a new initiative where we invite artists, curators, and connoisseurs to gather a reading list on a subject of their choice for publication on our website as an open resource. This is a place where we can congregate, discuss and share knowledge.
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The Reading Room with Tanya Mascarenhas
On The Global Contemporary
Pinto, Jerry. Citizen Gallery: Ghandy’s of chemould and the birth of Modern Art in Bombay (2022) -
The Reading Room with Joe Nickols
On Queerness
Miyagawa Issho, 1750 -
The Reading Room with Huma Kabakci
On The Taste of Art
Huma Kabakci photographed by Alina zum Hebel -
The Reading Room with Jennifer Nieuwland
On The Meaning of the Body
Jennifer Nieuwland photographed by Omer Gaash -
The Reading Room with Tal Regev
On Seeking Renewal
Tal Regev, Movements, 2023, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cmTal Regev
While preparing her upcoming solo exhibition, we asked Tal to share some books that have informed her latest body of work. Sunlit Moon opens on Tuesday 3 October at 56 Conduit Street, W1S 2YZ.
Tal Regev, It breaks, 2023, oil on canvas, 140 x 140 cmSeeking Renewal
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in
the Transformation of Trauma, Bassel Van Der Kolk (2021)
Cosmic Serpent: DNA & THe origins of knowledge,
Jeremy Narby (2016)
The Newly Born Woman: Helene Cixous, and
Catherine Clement (2008)
Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma,
Kali Tal (2004)
As A Weasel Sucks Eggs: An Essay on Melancholy
and Cannibalism, Daniel Birnbaum, and Anders Olsson (2008)
Visions and Ecstasies: Selected Essays Book,
H.D and Michael Green (2019)
Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture, Catherine
Clement translated by Sally O’Driscoll and Deirdre (1994)
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Julia Kristeva (1989)
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva (1982)
Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological
Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity by Stephen A. Diamond (1996)