"Treatments detail my observations of institutional spaces while navigating my partner’s experience with cancer. The journey coincided with our shared trauma of covid, during which she endured surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles.” Mat Rappaport's Treatments 2019-2023 is a deeply personal poetic meditation on illness, institutional space, and loss, documenting a body of photographic and installation works created over a two year timespan. Produced to accompany the exhibition "Treatments 2019 / 2023" at Chicago artist-run spsace Material, Bridge Books published this anthology of the same name with the complete "Treatments" photographic series by Rappaport, and as a stand-alone anthology of artistic meditations on spousal loss and grief. The volume includes an essay by Michael Workman, with poetry collections “The Well: Grief Poems,” by Rachel J. Webster, and Josh Honn’s “We Fall: Migration.”
Dimensions: 8 x 8"
Materials: Hardback: Case laminate
Bridge Books
(Irving Park)
LAUNCHED IN 2022, Bridge Books was founded with the belief that books are the vascular systems of democracy, delivering the intellectual oxygen required for a body politic to actively, inclusively, effectively self-govern and thrive. Bridge Books strives to provide that oxygen through publication of interventionist titles in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, architecture, dance, couture, cinema, and the broad spectrum other artistic disciplines and related interests as defined by the concerns of the Bridge collective of artists, including work by its members, as well as new, relevant and vital voices when encountered.
Mat Rappaport is a Chicago-based artist, filmmaker, curator, and educator whose work spans documentary film, mobile media, performance, and photography. His current documentary, touristic intents, examines Prora, a massive Nazi-era resort in Germany now repurposed as a luxury destination, raising questions about memory, architecture, and commercialization. Rappaport's work has been shown internationally, including at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Venice’s 500th Anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto. He has performed with the Range Mobile Lab at the MCA Chicago and Block Museum, and his photographs are held by the Museum of Contemporary Photography and Newberry Library. Rappaport has received fellowships from the Howard Foundation, Nohl Fund, and others. He is the Donald W. Klein Professor of the Practice at Tufts University and a professor at Columbia College Chicago.