MOLAF CIRCUMFLEXIONS (2021)
28 x 20 cm | 40 pages | Edition of 100 | Co-published by Pamflett, Bergen
MOLAF Circumflexions is the fourth published work by the Museum of Longing and Failure. It comprises twenty short stories and twenty graphic images, each text containing three sentences of twenty words or less, and each drawing composed using three elements that repeat up to twenty times. This underlying structure reflects the numerical constraint given to artists when invited to create a sculptural work for the MOLAF’s collection — that their contribution measure 20 x 20 x 20 cm or smaller.
A SMALL AND NOT OSTENTATIOUS CHAMBER WITH WHOSE DECORATIONS NO FAULT CAN BE FOUND (2019)
21 x 15 cm | 80 pages | Edition of 350 | Co-published by The Rooms, St. John's
A small and not ostentatious chamber with whose decorations no fault can be found is the third published work by the Museum of Longing and Failure. The book takes shape as an adaptation of the final paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe’s essay "The Philosophy of Furniture,” which describes Poe’s vision of a perfect room. In the MOLAF’s updated version, approximately one third of Poe’s original words are swapped out for words found in the titles of sculptures in the MOLAF’s permanent collection. Accompanying the text is a series of paper collages based on the various rooms in which the MOLAF has appeared.
MOLAF INCARNATIONS (2016)
21 x 15 cm | 128 pages | Edition of 500 | Co-published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
MOLAF Incarnations is the second published work by the Museum of Longing and Failure. It comprises a short story and a series of paper collages, both based on the first fifty artworks acquired by the MOLAF.
MOLAF VARIATIONS (2015)
21 x 15 cm | 144 pages | Edition of 500
MOLAF Variations is the first published work by the Museum of Longing and Failure. Over the course of the book, the acronym MOLAF is reformulated eighty-eight times in an exhaustive attempt at re-invention.
