Luna de Brillo / Shinemoon
by Laura F. Gibellini
Luna de Brillo / Shinemoon is a unique artist's book in two side-by-side editions (Spanish and English) that emerge from Laura F. Gibellini's collaboration with her five-year-old daughter Maya—though collaboration suggests a tidiness that doesn't capture the freedom of this work. This bilingual book follows Gibellini's previous works from Publication Studio, Drawing a Mountain and Atmospheric Meditations, with Gibellini again allowing herself to be led somewhere unexpected.
Solar eclipses provide a conceptual framework—not the scientific kind, but eclipses as moments when absence teaches us more than presence usually bothers to. Maya draws blue clouds in white skies, writes letters without rules, creating what Inés Muñozcano describes in her included essay as work that "draws our attention to the genuine nature of the written character... [bringing] with themselves the unique seal of the person who writes them."
Gibellini works through partial copies, revealing fragments before attempting wholes. The method suits the subject: "a family constellation which brings the micro and the macro scales together, infancy alongside the whole of human history." The book is dedicated to Maya and the artist's father, "always connected by the cosmos and the dust from stars."
The book comes in two side-by-side editions: Spanish ("Luna de Brillo") and English ("Shinemoon").
