Silent Pink

114×169mm
368 pages,
thread stitching
dust jacket with perforation

English/Chinese with texts by:
Dr. Isabel Balzer, Diyi Mergenthaler,
Chongyin Yuan, Nici Jost

tria publishing platform, 2025
ISBN 978-3-906899-12-1

With Silent Pink, artist Nici Jost presents her second publication dedicated to the colour pink — a natural continuation of her long-term artistic investigation into this multifaceted hue.

The publication shows photographic sequences in which collected objects and urban observations enter into precise yet intuitive constellations. Some relationships reveal themselves through tonal proximity; others emerge from the productive friction of seemingly unrelated elements. Pink here becomes a taxonomy — a principle that categorises, indexes, and connects. Between the images, personal reflections by Diyi Mergenthaler and Chinese artist Chongyin Yuan deepen the readers’s understanding of Chinese culture and the reception of pink.
 

GiIn her contribution A Picture Is Always a Picture of a Picture, Dr. Isabel Balzer reflects on Jost’s research in China and the compositional narrative of this publication — the juxtaposition of image pairs and the introduction of the newly defined hues Silent Pink and Peach Pink — situating these recent additions within the broader framework of Jost’s oeuvre.

The dust jacket, printed in these two new shades, functions simultaneously as a material extension of the Pink Colour System — transforming the book into both document and specimen.b deine Nachricht hier ein