VICE-VERSA are flip drawings that can be read in two directions and have 2 meanings. The images in this book are preparative studies for large paintings. The 220×220 cm enameled aluminum frames of the paintings are fixed on motorized axes, which allow the paintings to turn at 90 or 180 degrees. When it flips, the figure reveals its duplicity; elusive lines on a twisted path, bouncing back and forth from an illusion to another... “A duck with a fish in its beak” becomes “a rabbit with a carrot in between the ears”. “Nothing special” becomes “Something special”. “A saw in a log” becomes “a crocodile love”. Etc.

Under various pseudonyms Cornelius de Bill Baboul has received the Berlin Art Prize (DE), was nominated for the Aperture PhotoBook Award (US), has entered private
and public collections such as MACBA (Barcelona), has been published by Nieves (CH) and exhibited at Paris-Photo (FR), MoMA PS1 (US), Swiss Institute (US),
Huis Marseille (NL) and Bank Gallery (JP).
His work appears in the international press like the British Journal of Photography (UK), Purple (FR), Cura (IT), Aperture (US), Elephant (UK), Zeit Magazin (DE), NY-Times (US), The Paris Review (US), Luncheon (UK) and Itsnicethat (UK).

Self-published, 2023

cloth-covered hardcover with embossed title.
First edition
English
9” x 9”

44 pages