Sorted Resorted is a book designed to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented at Wiels, Brussels. The exhibition adopts material as its organising principle. It underlines the idea of sorting as a recurring theme in Kuri’s practice and resorts his works into four categories: paper, plastic, metal, and construction materials. The book design extends the concept of the exhibition, creating an alternative artistic space while also fulfilling its duties as an ultra-functional catalogue of the show.
The book can be understood as a proposition for a sculpture; a deconstructed object exposing its content to create a relationship between the various material components. There is a common interest with Gabriel to explore the logics with which everyday materials speak to us and can be used to form literal and metaphorical statements.
The 2-D typographic and structural organisation is immediate, almost didactic in its nature. Fulfilling a modernistic principle of order, precision and legibility the design allows the reader to focus on important relationships in the images and associated texts. On the cover the reader is primed by a graphic supporting the apparently literal title, which seeks to establish an interplay between the abstract and symbolic meaning.
