Letters to Camondo, the latest book by artist, ceramicist and writer Edmund De Waal, was released in the UK this April 2021. The author of the Portfolio for issue 6 of Electra magazine De Waal, returns in this work to late 19th-century Paris, ten years after the publication of his best-seller The Hare with Amber Eyes.
Edmund De Waal, Portfolio, Electra 6
Letters to Camondo, the latest book by artist, ceramicist and writer Edmund De Waal, was released in the UK this April 2021. The author of the Portfolio for issue 6 of Electra magazine De Waal, returns in this work to late 19th-century Paris, ten years after the publication of his best-seller The Hare with Amber Eyes. Letters to Camondo is an imaginary exchange of letters between De Waal and Count Moise de Camondo. The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who settled in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors and figures of high society. These letters are a personal reflection on memory, objects, places, art, history and diaspora. These themes are also present in the portfolio Edmund de Waal designed for issue 6 of Electra, based on the exhibition psalm, which was presented at the 2019 Venice Biennale, and in which photographs of the installations were inscribed in a text/diary by the artist.