
“Boundaries” explores the idea of the boundary through multiple forms of language.
By placing the signifier–signified relationship at its core, the investigation unfolds through typography studies, artworks, lettering experiments, poetry, photography, notes, reflections, and experimental narrative.
The tools of language are deconstructed, pushed beyond convention, and rebuilt into a non-linear, sometimes opaque relationship with the reader. The reader moves in a fluid state — through sensations, impressions, sounds, images, and concepts.
Reading becomes an act of tracing personal boundaries, shaped by the emotions and cues the book evokes.
The result is a personal mapping, constantly evolving, detached from the authors’ intentions and guided instead by the expressive and evocative nature of the elements themselves.
This publication was created in collaboration with JIPO Records.
JIPO Records is an independent, multimedia, and multigenre label dedicated to research and to aesthetics as an ethical act: each release is an exercise in vision, contamination, and conscious style.
Book design by Davide Palombo 'PLMS'
Art direction, graphics, lettering, artworks by PLMS
Texts by PLMS, Giulio Battolla, CMDK10086
Translations by PLMS
Translations revisions by Giorgia Caffagni
Video Footage by Shelly Deluze
Softcover,
140x210 mm, 142 pages
Italiana / English / Japanese / Cinese
150 copies
ISBN 979-12-243-0894-2
Altana was born in 2018 in Venice after the encounter between Francesco Paleari, Elia Pinna and Francesco Villa. It’s meant to be a place for conversations and exchange around photography, genuinely dedicated to authorial research and care for editorial projects. Altana refuses to be labeled but rather prefers the dynamism of an evolving hybrid studio.
Altana is not a publisher, it is not a physical place and either a concept. Altana is a flying carpet made of wood from which you can enjoy a new perspective through photography.
You can find our publications here: Micamera, Milano / Dashwood, New York / Librairie du Palais, Arles / Le Monte-en-l’air, Paris / Actes Sud, Arles / Choisi, Lugano / Leporello, Roma / Tipi, Brussels / Corraini 121+, Milano / Studio Faganel, Gorizia