2026
Featuring:
Alphonse Eklou Uwantege
Anthea Hamilton
Delphine Gaborit
Elena Francalanci
Jonathan Anderson
Juergen Teller
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann
Lewis Ronald
Marianne Moore
Mims Haddad
Sarah-Linh Tran
GaboritRonaldHamilton is an artist’s book made in a series of sittings across London, Paris, Brussels and Lucca. It is the first major collaborative work by Anthea Hamilton, Delphine Gaborit and Lewis Ronald. Titled by a grouping of the trio’s surnames it plays with the branding language of a corporate merger. The form of the book was the first thing established: slim in page count, gloss paper and a white textured cover, its surface withholds author or title, and is instead wrapped in sugar paper stamped with a list of a cast including artists, photographers, creative directors, dancers and poets. Inside, a suite of twenty-five photographs, made in the span of a few months in early 2026, are organised around a 100-year-old poem by Marianne Moore regarding a snail. The only piece of text in the book, Moore’s To A Snail, speaks to an aesthetic of restraint; a love letter to density, pressure, structure and compactness. In Moore’s poem, style – considered formally, linguistically, and choreographically – becomes muscular, capable of both tension and controlled release. Simultaneously intimate and analytical, To A Snail affords “a knowledge of principles” to the photographs’ semi-anonymous portraits – details of hands, spines, ankles, lips, legs, buttocks, ears, and thighs – and still lives. In lieu of adornment, Snail meets surface, hand meets hip, sea meets shore. The poem finally meets its twin by an image of hibernating snails. Where a snail’s ventral foot would typically meet a horizontal surface totally and entirely, here a grouping congregates at the very tip of a weathered twig: poised and condensed upon shared coordinates.
