Recent titles from West Eden Publications
Catalogue for ‘Zootopia’, Htein Lin’s solo exhibition presented with Coming From Kalaw, 21 October - 27 December 2026. It brings together work developed through his recent life and practice in Pindaya, southern Shan State: paintings on reclaimed fabric, masks, sculpture and film in which animals, humans and folklore meet, and animals become protectors of human beings.
Catalogue for the exhibition ‘Rang Ruam Samai’, Julien Spiewak’s first exhibition in Thailand. It continues his series ‘Corps de Style’, in which fragments of the human body merge with furniture, and follows the work through three Bangkok venues: Sirisala Private Thai Villa, Wat Suwannaram Ratchaworawihan and So Heng Tai. Text in English and Thai.
Download catalogueCatalogue for ‘အက္ခရာ’ (Ek Kha Ya), 20 August - 12 October 2025. Htein Lin treats the Burmese alphabet as a living force, from the paintings on recycled cardboard to the letters that carry memory, resistance and identity. Text in English and Thai.
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Animal Charm is an ongoing multimedia project that grew from Htein Lin’s life and practice in Pindaya. The photobook follows the handmade animal masks, the photographs and paintings made with people around his studio, the short film shot at Grace Estate, and the protective charm at the centre of the story. It includes a text by the artist.
Forty of the world’s best-known photographs, from the earliest known images to one of the most expensive ever sold, re-created in miniature by the Swiss photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger. The book includes images of the build process, an essay and an interview with the artists.
Learn moreJulien Spiewak’s early photographs from fashion shows, including those for Chanel, Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Versace. Not conventional fashion photography, the images show his long-standing interest in the body, its fragmentation, classical statuary and the nude, and anticipate his series ‘Corps de Style’.
Learn moreJulien Spiewak found that sentences in Balzac’s story ‘Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu’ seemed to describe his ‘Corps de Style’ images. The first part pairs quotations from Balzac with museum photographs in which artworks meet parts of the human body. The second reprints Balzac’s full text with Spiewak’s marginal annotations.
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