Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit book design The ambiguous relationship between the

The ambiguous relationship between the documentary and the imaginary has been investigated and questioned within the arts for decades

In October 2014

an artist’s retreat

This book arises from the 2018 activities of the MA Fine Arts program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)

Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit book design The ambiguous relationship between theAlienation and dire frustration mount as an unnamed womana motherstruggles to survive in the face of state repression, neighborhood surveillance, extreme weather, and familial control. Told through one side of an epistolary exchange, the novels letters are bookended by dense ramblings by the mothers son, who struggles to speak and write and spends most of his days in lockdown rearranging his vessels, hysterically laughing, drooling, writhing,