ZZYZX (First edition, signed) A24 Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza

handmade maquette

The book’s narrative challenges the issue of forced immigration within the boundaries of Europe’s past and present

leading them to death or freedom

and his albums of his own photographs

ZZYZX (First edition, signed) A24 Cristina Rivera GarzaThe early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid rowbut the place is not so easily distilled or visualised, either as a clichd paradise or as its demise. Theres a strange kind of harmony when its all seen togetherthe sublime, the psychedelic, the self destructive. Like all places, its unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes.