Produced for the NGV’s 2020 Triennial, this substantial catalogue gathers contemporary art, design, architecture and critical writing from across an exhibition built around questions of conservation.

It goes deep into climate, extraction, technology, labour, identity, urban life, cultural memory and the politics of looking. The book works as a dense constellation of artists and ideas, moving between individual practices and larger thematic groupings such as conservation, speculation, matter and transformation.

The breadth of those collisions is gorgeously put together. Essays sit alongside installation photography, archival material, Indigenous perspectives, environmental thinking and speculative design, with contributions engaging everything from waste and plant intelligence to queer space, economies of art and institutional power. The catalogue retains the slightly overwhelming quality of the Triennial itself, beautifully produced, visually restless, and a strong record of a particularly bumpy historical moment.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2020. First edition, published for NGV Triennial 2020. Large-format illustrated paperback. Light shelf and edge wear; internally clean and bright.