Cut a Door in the Wolf is an exhibition in the form of a single site-specific artwork by artist Jason Dodge (1969). Exploring systems made up of organic and inorganic matter, Dodge is interested in the stuff that human beings shed— day in, day out. Micro- and macro-landscapes made up of the familiar and often discarded things that result from our individual and collective habits are laid out in the space. Their appearance seems to suggest that everything is indeed in everything. Through gestural action, an avoidance of a direct subject, and insistence on the viewers’ own subjective agency, Dodge investigates the potential of the viewer as producer of meaning. The homonymous artist’s book was created by Jason Dodge together with photographer Adrianna Glaviano and graphic designer Julie Peeters, with whom the artist  has chosen to share authorship of the book. Consisting mainly of the photographs taken by Glaviano, with the exception of six images captured by the artist himself, the book is deliberately devoid of text and interpretation, and renders the exhibition through the details captured by a subjective eye. Wrapped in paper printed with the same Aspirin advertisement that appeared in the form of torn fragments within the exhibition, the book was printed at Benedict Press, an antique printing house of Benedictine monks based in Germany. The limited edition of the book contains traces of paper from the exhibition.

Design: Julie Peeters
Published by BILL