This book is not a conventional monograph; it conceives of itself as a work of art. Georg Loewit’s sculptures, paintings, and graphic works are not simply reproduced. Instead, in keeping with the artist’s own working method, they are deliberately fragmented into unusual close-up views, resisting the fleeting glance. The book’s gutter becomes a cutting edge.

This interruption challenges premature, unreflective perception, opening up space for a multitude of possible perspectives, points of entry, associations, and interpretations.

With its exposed sewn binding, rotatable format, and alternating matte and glossy pages, the publication becomes an object situated between art, craftsmanship, and reflection. The texts (A–Z) accompanying Loewit’s works offer multiple approaches to an oeuvre that speaks of absence and completion, projection and incision, movement and stillness: people strolling, shopping, carrying out everyday routines, on holiday, in museums, at the beach, walking, occupied, waiting—frozen in poses, gestures, and distances shaped by social conventions, hierarchies, and unspoken codes of behaviour.

As in Anne Michaels’s reflections on photography, movement remains as a “condensation of light” or the “breath of absence.” Loewit’s work renders this paradoxical experience visible: what is preserved is not stillness itself, but transience.

The book has been designed so that, when opened, it forms an optical square. Rotatable by 90 degrees, its format distinguishes the two bodies of work—sculpture and image—while keeping them in close dialogue. In Loewit’s practice, everything is interconnected: sculptures evolve into images or emerge from them, works give rise to further works—presented here in chronological order, from 2012 to 2025.

A book that invites not only contemplation, but discovery.