PAINTING, WRITING, TEXTING BOOK (ENGLISH)

Painting Writing Texting narrates the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing, which began in 2016 when Joffe asked Laing to pose for a portrait. From that unexpected encounter, both developed a broad and dynamic collaboration, fuelled by conversations about art, books and their way of understanding the world. The book compiles texts by Laing and a sequence of Joffe's paintings to explore how everyday life transforms into art, and how dialogue between words and images shapes a creative friendship.