In 2017, MACK published Corbeau, a hardcover of 196 pages in which the Swiss artist Anne Golaz returns to the rural farm where she grew up. The book was twelve years in the making. Its title comes from an enigmatic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, though the bird is only a starting point; the real weight sits in the farmyard, in the work done there, and in the family that does it.

Corbeau is built in three parts and refuses a single register. Photographs, video stills and drawings share the pages with writing: texts by the author, screenwriter and playwright Antoine Jaccoud, who assembled transcripts of family conversations and memories recounted by the artist into a structure closer to a dramatic script, alongside Golaz’s own writings. Three generations pass through the book. Chronology is deliberately loosened — the future is made to resemble the past — so that the place reads less as a record than as a condition.

A young man, seen in each chapter, works the farm. Duty holds him there, and doubt gradually enters that duty, spreading through the whole. Golaz describes a narrative construction existing in a vacuum: a bounded space that can just as easily support as destroy, and inside it, the mixed feelings that inheritance produces. Time, life, destiny and death are handled without resolution.

For a collector, the interest lies in how deliberate that construction is. The book moves between media, generation and register under an editorial hand that keeps the sequence taut; the drawings and video stills are not decoration but part of the argument. It is memoir and tableau at once, and it shows a photographer thinking in book form — a fully formed early statement from an artist whose work has continued since.

English-language hardcover, 23.4 × 15.6 cm, carrying its ISBN as 9781910164747.