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Drawing on two very different but interlinked bodies of work – McGregor’s long-running Island Drawings and more recent Island Collages – the book juxtaposes the Australian artist’s meticulously rendered

Adam Pendleton: As Heavy as Sculpture divination tabloids from San Francisco’s Haight-AshburyAdam Pendleton's (born 1984) new artist's book, As Heavy as Sculpture, follows Pendleton's 2021 installation of the same title, which was exhibited at the New Museum in New York. The book compiles, repeats, and processes more than 80 source collages, incorporating drawings, sketches, writings, and marks, often in combination with images. Much of the language used in the collages is drawn from the protests against police brutality that swept the United