Gianluca Costantini joins the project curated by the David Graeber Institute, which has invited 14 artists from different parts of the world to create works inspired by the essays collected in the volume The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…, published in November 2024.
The book, which brings together twenty years of David Graeber’s writings—including There Never Was a West, Against Economics, and Dead Zones of Imagination—features forewords by Rebecca Solnit and Nika Dubrovsky. Following its publication, the David Graeber Institute organized a series of public lectures and online talks to further explore the themes addressed in these essays, inviting artists to offer their own visual interpretations of the texts.
The project, curated by Nika Dubrovsky, Elena Sorokina, Radical Care Collective, and Clive Russell, has brought together artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, including Ahmet Öğüt, Mandy El-Sayegh, Chris Haughton, Joan Cornellà, Rafaela Drazic, Frank Arbelo, Dima Kashtalyan, Zbyněk Baladran, Clive Russell, Gianluca Costantini, Matt Jones, Kolya Oleynikov, BOLOHO, and Miles Glyn.
The resulting artworks, presented as posters, will be available in print and as an A2 booklet to be distributed in selected bookstores across the United Kingdom and the United States, thanks to FSG and Penguin/Allen Lane.
The A2 booklet of posters can be downloaded for free at the link provided, helping to spread David Graeber’s thinking through visual art while encouraging collective reflection on themes of freedom, economics, and social imagination.
Here you can download a free A2 brochure with posters. Link
