“Corporeal” by Spyros Rennt

Tasks: press work and moderation of a panel talk with Q&A to the artist on the occasion of the book presentation at the Antigone bookshop in Milan

Lens-based artist Spyros Rennt explores themes of identity and sexuality in his new book of photography.

Spyros Rennt is excited to present his new collection of photos ‘Corporeal’, which launches at the Paris Ass Book Fair in Palais de Tokyo on the weekend of June 10th, 2023.

Featuring 150 new photographs, ‘Corporeal’ is self published and designed by Rennt himself. The cover is designed by noted creative Marwan Kaabour.

The book features a foreword text by dutch curator Maia Kenney. Corporeal presents Rennt’s experiences and observations of different communities (the queer community and the underground club scene, sometimes intertwined), not from an outsider perspective, but as a part of these groups. The content of the images is personal and ranges from tender to raw; humour can also be present. His friends and loved ones are his favourite subjects. The relationships are recorded in the public sphere as well as in private: on club dance floors and bedrooms, on beaches and hotel rooms. The camera aims at objects or spaces occasionally, his main focus however remains people.