2025
artist book
unpaginated
175 x 200 mm
French Fold binding

dorée 70g/m²

Al-Majnoun Books “Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground” is an artist book following the move out of Heine’s first flat in Erfurt; an old, run-down worker’s house Am Salpeterberg. Showing fragments of the process of moving as well as atmospheric meditations on a familiar place, the work investigates novel experiences of autism as a disability, at the foremost due to elementary problems with change as well as a mixture of dread, sorrow and reconsiliation going along with it.The book furthermore includes short handwritten texts about the time spent at this address as well as the story of a blues song sent into space in the 70s. In this, a bridge be-tween special interest, disability, self-mythology and biographical artefact is built.