Mark Batty Publisher

Here’s a book from last year that’s flying under the radar but you should really pay attention to: Becoming: A Gender Flipbook.  In her book, artist Yishay Garbasz dares to explore one of society’s most taboo subjects—the exercise of individual agency in the unmaking and remaking of a body’s gender. We put this remarkable book out at the end of last year, and it is now being launched in Germany. On Monday, April 18 at 8pm, b_books will host Yishay for the book release and a lecture about her project.

In this groundbreaking work and objet d’art, Garbasz courageously documents the changes she underwent from one year before her gender reassignment surgery until one year afterward. With unprecedented honesty, the artist photographed her body every week, chronicling the changes throughout this period. Becoming’s flipbook format renders visible and immediate the element of time in this process. The Becoming project was presented as installation and is a film, as well as an object d’art and book.