ssaliva, ‘Landscape’ Book

2021
Soft book with jacket
160 × 240 mm
144 pages

‘LANDSCAPES’ is a first attempt to highlight ssaliva’s visual work. Through a selection of 100 images – digital paintings based on original photographs or screenshots – the book takes us on a scenic journey into the artist’s mind. Recalling a wide variety of references from the fields of photography, painting, landscape architecture and even Internet art, Ssaliva’s paintings bear witness to a wistful sensitivity to urban and rural exploration. Ssaliva has made his region a real playground. Walking through the “indeterminate” or empty spaces of Liège and its surroundings, the artist showed his empathy for the interstices and other abandoned places charged with history. This is what he tried to transcribe in the modification of his digital paintings: A veil wrapping his landscapes in mysteries. With this book, Ssaliva sets a coherent backdrop to his musical production, further completing the puzzle of an instinctive body of work inscribed in the pure romantic tradition.

François Boulanger is an audiovisual artist born in Liège, Belgium, in 1983. He started producing music by the end of the ’90s/early 2000s and producing his visual work around 2010. Active under several monikers, he started his experimental project ‘ssaliva’ in 2011, which today covers the entire spectrum of his work.

Printed in Lithuania by Printing House KOPA.