1 2 3 4 5 Francesca Llopis: duc una ciutat al cap

A book by Francesca Llopis, a visual artist from Barcelona. Llopis has worked across multiple media, including painting, drawing, video, and installation. The title of this book, Duc una ciutat al cap, is Catalan for “I carry a city in my head.” As the title suggests, the book unfolds around motifs that often appear in her work: the city, the labyrinth, and the journey. These elements spread throughout the pages in a complex yet free-flowing way. Opening the book, you encounter carefully chosen pearlescent paper, layered with a variety of drawings. Photographs of a gorilla and a spiral staircase are also combined in a rhythm reminiscent of a flipbook. These visual fragments overlap and accumulate, creating the sense that the book itself is walking through a city inside someone’s mind. Rather than a book to simply look at quietly, it is one to wander through, get lost in, and discover page by page. It is an artist’s book filled with visual playfulness and quiet surprises. 66 pages + fold-out pages / 22 × 22 cm / Cloth-bound hardcover / Purchased at the former Aoyama Book Center in Roppongi