A Most Exquisite Corpse is an accordion book that folds out to a life-size full-body drawing. Following the surrealist tradition of the cadavre exquis, each of the thirty participating artists contributes one page, a five-inch section of the body. Embedded in the drawing are time and conversations between Figure Bound and each artist as we sat down in their studio or home and talked about our life, pursuits, and pains while they drew. The result is a community making up one body holding an array of concerns: from the sweetness of a lollipop and cigar smoke to sores in the knee and hunger in the gut, from x-ray visions of our inner bones and flesh to looking out to the cosmos, from living amongst nature to living with bionic parts, from abstractions in the head to landscapes at your feet.
Along with bringing together a community of artists, this book connects a web of artist-run independent small publishing efforts.
Participating artists:
Delia Cadman, Aneesa Razak (of misplaced press), Robin Gammons, Forrest Knight, Yeji Kim (of misplaced press), David Snyder, Bobby Smith, Kian McKeown, Megan Nugroho, Ruoxin Sun, Finley Doyle, Marta Lee, Samuel Alexander Forest, Jayne Thompson, Jessica Hankey (of Orbis Editions), Rachel Yanku, Xingzi Gu, Claire Merkle, Khia Hong, Kaila Chambers, Nico Chiat, Meg McCarthy, Rafaella Fontenelle, Matt Jones (of Puppy American), Haleigh Collins, Ruiqi Ma (of com,,,as), Loretta Violante, Nick O’Connell, Jun Ko, Virgil Warren (of Deadcrow Comics)
2026
Edition of 700
