Wish You Were Here

Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 396,000 followers (and counting!) in an endeavour to revive the art of handwriting from within an ever-advancing digital age. In this open-ended project, bringing together the slow composition of the written note and the velocity of the Instagram post, Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems and puns from some of the world's greatest contemporary artists. Following the success of the first volume Remember to Dream! published in 2023, the book is designed once again by award-winning book designer Irma Boom, who interprets each handwritten note to capture the character of its author with her ingenious and original typography. Featuring Post-it notes from John Akomfrah, Mark Bradford, Leonora Carrington, Kim Gordon, Tzu Nyen Ho, Yorgos Lanthimos, Tilda Swinton, Paula Rego and many more, this promises to be an exciting second volume in Obrist's inspiring book series.