Ilana Halperin - What is Us and What is Earth

This book celebrates 25 years of the work of Ilana Halperin. Originally from New York and based in Glasgow in Scotland since 1998, Halperin makes drawings, text-drawings, watercolours, sculptures and photographs that seek to locate the personal in the geological, to collapse deep time and human time so that we can better understand ourselves in the natural world to which we belong. The major monograph brings together work made throughout Halperin's career, from 1999 to 2026. Writing by Paul Bonaventura, Catriona McAra with Claire Cousins, and Stephanie Straine sheds new light on Halperin's work and career, while a sequence of letters between Ilana Halperin and friends geographer Adam Bobbette and writer Candice Chung offer personal insight into the thought processes behind this intensely beguiling body of work.