The Thanksgiving Book - giancarlo norese

I often think about the process of
naming people on the page of
acknowledgments in art books. Having
one’s name printed on these pages
means to be recognized as an
interlocutor and makes visible one's own
involvement. Named people are existing
people. I want to exist. I asked curators
to include my name—amidst others—in
exhibition catalogues so that I could
artificially feed my own public
acknowledgment. Thanksgiving Book is
fulfilled with these thanksgiving pages.
—G.N.