Published to accompany the Italian artist's major retrospective, this substantial monograph surveys the work of Grazia Toderi, whose video installations, photography and light-based works transform cities, theatres and sporting arenas into luminous constellations suspended somewhere between cartography and cosmology.

Working with satellite imagery, architecture and the visual language of spectacle, Toderi repeatedly collapses the distance between the built environment and the night sky, producing images that feel simultaneously technological, archaeological and dreamlike.

Richly illustrated throughout, the book pairs large-format reproductions with critical essays (in both Italian and English) examining Toderi's fascination with perspective, performance, memory and urban space. Recurring works such as Empire, Subway Series and her celebrated theatre installations reveal an artist interested less in documenting reality than in abstracting it until familiar places begin to resemble galaxies or neural networks. For readers interested in contemporary art, media archaeology, architecture, installation practice or the aesthetics of cities, this is an unusually thoughtful and visually striking monograph on one of Italy's most distinctive contemporary artists.

2004 Charta softcover exhibition catalogue. Light shelf wear to the covers with a clean, unmarked interior and excellent colour reproductions throughout.