Jenni Lukac


Penumbra

A 56-page, 20 cm x 15 cm soft-cover book to be released in December 2025

A 46-page 14 cm x 11 cm hardcover book released in September 2025. Click on title at left to see all of the pages.

Sculptural artists’ books created to accompany a series of installation sculptures produced in the 1990s that explored aspects of European life in the 1930s and 1940s. Below: Wherever, However, collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Library and Documentation Centre, Madrid, Spain. Click on “Unique artists’ books” to view more examples.

Installation sculptures

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A series of installation sculptures created in the 1990s that explored aspects of European life in the 1930s and 1940s: Kaddish, a three-channel video installation with Duratrans transparencies and soundtrack commissioned by The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. in 1995; 10th Day, an installation created at the Centre de’Arte de Herblay, France in 1995 based on vintage photographs of Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village destroyed by the SS in 1944; and Dresden, a twenty-panel backlit transparency wall installation commissioned by the Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary for its series Cherchez la Femme created during at a residency at the Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plushöw, Germany in 1997.


Dream Book, a small 46-page hardcover exploring the ways in which children process the world around them through dreams and the evolving relationships we have as adults with our childhood selves, was created using a combination of commercial software designed for the creation of family photograph albums, the standard editing functions of a Macintosh computer and Adobe image-editing software. 

Works in Progress: Cajóndesastre, a reworking of pages from Metropolitan Miniatures, a series of popular art appreciation booklets published jointly in the 1950s and 60s by the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Book-of-the-Month Club.