Guiones is a photo book created by Maureen Muse, Munir Toral, and Kyle Whittall. The creation of the book started with the documentation of Toral’s performances, executed by Muse in Mexico City during the spring of 2021. The artistic collaboration grew as Whittall took on the role of art director and editorial designer of the book.
The title Guiones, “scripts” in Spanish, is inspired by the process from which Toral’s performances stem: from a script he develops a performance that is only accessible through the lenses that capture it. The documentation, shot with an analog camera, was then hand-printed in the darkroom where the prints were then scanned to be printed on rice paper by Saturnino Taller Editorial in Mexico City.
The material quality of the rice paper, its partial transparency, allows for a precisely designed book. Each page maintains traces of the previous image while also projecting the viewer towards a preview of the following one. The subtle, erotic, and at times ghostly quality of the images is then accentuated by the transparency that this specific paper allows for, and the dialogue it foments between the black and white images. Rhythmically woven together as if in a song, the images blend into one another while always retaining their specific “note”, allowing for a presentation that does not need to be chronological.
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