Selby Wynn Schwartz is collaborating with Isabelle Olivier, Foster Mickley, and Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Ilaria Puri Purini to curate a collective installation of black cat daydream’s shorelines.

At that time we were not called anything and so we cherished every word*

Books are encounters, voices, thoughts, and dreams transmitted across time. A polyphony of writers, artists, and former Fellows of AAR and Villa Medici have been invited to echo Selby’s After Sappho* by lending five books from their personal libraries, each marked at a ‘beautiful’ chosen page. Unattributed, mingled, open, juxtaposed, they will form a chorus in spirals and archipelagos on the grounds of AAR, inviting guests into imagination and kinships.

With: Johanne Affricot, Valentina Amenta, Sarah Arvio, Chiara Barzini, Olivier Brossard, Theo Casciani, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Mark Doty, Claudia Durastanti, Forrest Gander, Jorie Graham, Rachel Hadas and George Edwards, Kimiko Hahn, Edward Hirsch, Emilie Houssa, Ishion Hutchinson, Mai Ishikawa, Jahan Khajavi, Clovis Maillet, Francesca Marciano, Dani Martiri, Foster Mickley, MP5, Lynn Nottage, Helen O’Leary, Isabelle Olivier, Muriel Pic, Sébastien Pluot, Ilaria Puri Purini, Rosetta S. Elkin, Raffaella Silvestri, Robyn Schiff, Selby Wynn Schwartz, Nicole Sealey, Sheila Pepe, Silvana Tamma, Nadia Terranova, Laura Vazquez, Rosanna Warren, Kyoko Yoshida.