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All other voices have gone, only yours remains

All other voices have gone, only yours remains

Hardcover French 80 pages 24 × 22 × 1.5 cm 485 g Print run 700

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Nieves Mingueza’s *All other voices have gone, only yours remains* is built from photographs that have been cut apart, obscured and recomposed. Aged images, strips of masking tape and pieces of old parchment become both subject and material: faces and settings persist, but their original coherence has been interrupted. The resulting collages attend to memory not as a stable record, but as something edited, damaged and continually reconstructed.

Published by IIKKI in 2019, the book arose through a dialogue between the Spanish photographer and artists The Humble Bee and Offthesky, whose accompanying composition approaches the same atmosphere through sound. Developed from October 2018 to June 2019, the collaboration follows IIKKI’s model of pairing visual and musical practices in forms that can be encountered independently or together. Here the affinity is structural as well as emotional: Mingueza dissects and reassembles photographic material, while the musicians similarly shape fragments into an intimate, fragile acoustic field.

Across 80 pages, the work sustains tension between human presence and erasure. Tape may conceal as much as it joins; worn surfaces suggest elapsed time without resolving the histories behind them. This refusal of a complete narrative is central to the book’s force. Rather than treating old photographs as transparent evidence, Mingueza exposes the acts of selection and alteration through which images acquire new meanings.

This hardcover is Mingueza’s first book and was issued as a limited, numbered edition of 700 copies. Its significance for a photobook collection lies not simply in that documented format, but in the precision with which publication, collage and musical collaboration are made interdependent. It records an early book-length statement by an experimental artist while also exemplifying IIKKI’s cross-disciplinary editorial method—a work best considered through sequencing, material intervention and the productive distance between what can be seen and what can be heard.

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