the exquisite book

The Exquisite Book is a project based on the Surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse. The book will be a modified version of the game, played by one hundred contributing contemporary fine artists, illustrators, designers and comic artists.

There will be ten groups of ten artists participating in the process. Each artist will contribute one page to the book. The first artist will be given a few words to inspire their drawing. Each of the following artists will see only the page that immediately precedes their own. Each artist will use images (and optionally, words) to create their continuation to the story, and the inspiration for the next artist in line.

Besides continuing the story of the last artist, there is another, more visual, connection between the pages. Each artist must have a horizon line in their image that starts on the left side of the page and ends on the right. Where the horizon line of the first artist’s page ends, is where it begins for the next artist.