Ticket to the Unknown

Ticket to the Unknown considers the schizophrenic texts of Aloïse Corbaz, an Art Brut artist better known for her drawing than her writing. Both a translation of texts and a commentary on dilemmas of reading and translation in artist's writing, this book explore the limits of the sayable and the visible as well as the corporeality of text itself. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jina Valentine has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including Steve Turner Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents, The Drawing Center, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. She received the Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship and has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, Sculpture Space, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received her BA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Paris. Ticket to the Unknown is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.