Edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard 
Editorial assistance by Alex Bennett 
Designed by Ben Weaver Studio  
Texts by Susannah Hyman and Sam Shepherd 
 
Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Germany 
300 x 240 mm, hardback 
196 pages, 100 colour and 15 black and white illustrations 
ISBN 978-1-910844-67-0 
Published by White Cube, April 2024 
 
A catalogue on Julie Mehretu, featuring new series of paintings, is published to mark the artist’s major solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey (September – November 2023). Illustrating three bodies of work in abundant detail, including new illustrations of the artist’s ‘TRANSpaintings’ (2023–24), this publication provides an in-depth record of Mehretu’s enigmatic and multi-layered works.

Designed by Ben Weaver Studio, the catalogue reflects the sculptural proportions and optical complexity of the artist’s paintings. A sequence of black-and-white photography, comprising documentary records of recent political events as well as studio photography of work in progress, provides a view of the diverse source material that guides the compositions’ incipient stages. An essay by Susannah Hyman reads the exhibited works alongside the artist’s gestural abstraction and engagement with revolutionary histories, providing a commentary on spatial politics and identity. Emphasising Mehretu’s cross-disciplinary collaboration, the publication features a companion text by musician and founder of Floating Points, Sam Shepherd. Tracing the inflections that make-up Mehretu’s expressive paintings within a paradigm of musicality, Shepherd’s intimate and contemplative response muses on the artist’s generative traversing of creative disciplines.

Susannah Hyman is Director of Exhibition Coordination, White Cube. Since 2002, she has coordinated exhibitions across White Cube’s galleries in London, Paris and Hong Kong. Further to this, Hyman has managed the careers of a variety of gallery artists and worked closely with venues such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, and Tate, London on the implementation of focused presentations, mid-career surveys and retrospectives.

Sam Shepherd is an electronic music producer, DJ and musician. He is the founder of Floating Points and Pluto Records and co-founder of Eglo Records.