{"title":"James Mullord","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Mullord is a London-based fabricator and maker working across contemporary art, exhibition production and installation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor THE NEW RARE EDITIONS, 2026, Mullord fabricated a number of the exhibition’s key physical structures, including the Diagonal Corridor, Fixture, and Bookshelf, French Publications. Moving between temporary architecture, lighting, furniture and display, these works helped establish the physical system through which the exhibition was encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition itself was conceived around shifting relationships between object, document, artwork, storage and architecture, with fabrication treated not simply as technical support but as part of a wider structure of delegated production and displaced authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMullord has also fabricated work for artists including Mark Leckey and Arthur Jafa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together works, editions and objects connected to his fabrication practice and his ongoing relationship with The New Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"james-mullord-bookshelf-publications-2026","title":"THE NEW RARE EDITIONS, JAMES MULLORD, Bookshelf, Publications, 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduced for THE NEW RARE EDITIONS in 2026, James Mullord’s Bookshelf, Publications brings together a replica bookshelf and three publications connected to Philippe Thomas. A unique work, it sits between furniture, display structure and archive. The publications remain functional objects while the shelf shifts their status through placement: from reading material to exhibition object, from storage to sculpture. Exhibited at THE NEW RARE EDITIONS, London, 5–30 June 2026, the work formed part of an installation in which publications, replica furniture, exhibition supports and architectural elements circulated between their conventional functions. Condition: as exhibited. Here, the bookshelf operates simultaneously as support, display and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work includes the following three publications:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePUBLIC — Archives Contemporaines Internationales\u003c\/em\u003e, no. 3, edited by Philippe Cazal, Éditions spéciales, Paris, September 1985–February 1986. A 72-page artist magazine in illustrated wrappers, 31 × 23 cm, containing “Philippe Thomas: Sujet à Discrétion?”, published under the name Michel Tourner eau. The contribution places Thomas’s self-commentary within an assumed authorial identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaniel Bosser \/ Philippe Thomas, \u003cem\u003ePhilippe Thomas décline son identité\u003c\/em\u003e, Galerie Claire Burrus \/ Éditions Yellow Now, France, 1987. A 40-page paperback, 16 × 23.5 cm, designed by Philippe Thomas and produced in relation to the 1987 conference of the same title, moving between lecture text, script and artist’s book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaura Carpenter \/ Philippe Thomas, \u003cem\u003eInsights\u003c\/em\u003e, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, 1990. A 78-page French-language paperback, 14 × 21 cm, published in an edition of 1,500 under Laura Carpenter’s name. Taking the form of a personal diary, it stages commentary on the agency readymades belong to everyone® through displaced authorship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"THE NEW RARE EDITIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54931601064274,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/The_New_Rare_Edition_Philippe_Thomas__French_Bookshelf_James_Mullard_Listing_2026_02.png?v=1791017231"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/james-mullord.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}