THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF DEAR KAIROS IS EXCLUSIVE TO SETANTA BOOKS

Dear Kairos by Simon Bray 

Specifications

• First edition (2023)
• First impression 
• Medium format paperback in new condition
• Signed by Simon Bray
• 16.5 × 24 cm
• Published by Skinnerboox
  

About the Prints

• Giclee print
• Each print is in an edition of 10 numbered and stamped copies
• Signed by Simon Bray on verso 
• Printed on Hahnemühle Pearl paper
• 15 x 22 cm (6" x 9")
• 0.5 cm (0.2") white border

About

Created over two weeks on the streets of Athens, ‘Dear Kairos’ is a letter to the Ancient Greek considerations of time. The viewer is invited to consider the Kronos, the linear, mechanistic and determined passing of clock and calendar time, and the Kairos, serendipitous, opportunistic and boundless time. Through the use of repeated scenes and careful sequencing, ‘Dear Kairos’ asks the viewer to consider moments loaded with significance that can be pushed through and embraced in order to distinguish, as Frank Kermode writes, “between mere chronicity and times which are concordant and full”, avoiding that which is fixed and easy to categorize, instead looking to embrace a boundless lack of beginning or ending.