• Laylah Ali, Projects 75, MoMA, 2002 — cover. Two Greenhead figures on a blue ground; one tall with a polka-dot shirt, one small with a spiked head. Offset-printed artist's book.
  • Laylah Ali, Projects 75, MoMA, 2002 — interior spread. Left: five dark spherical heads with elongated shadows. Right: three tall Greenhead figures with spiked crowns and a small figure clinging to one.
  • Laylah Ali, Projects 75, MoMA, 2002 — interior spread. A horizontal figure suspended above four round-headed figures standing in a row, with a fifth performing a handstand. Blue ground throughout.
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Laylah Ali — Projects 75, MoMA, 2002

Laylah Ali — Projects 75, MoMA, 2002

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Artist's book / comic book
[40] pp.
18.5 × 24.5 cm
Paperback; staple bound
Offset printed in colour

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear; minor cover and edge wear consistent with age.

Published by MoMA for Projects 75, this is Laylah Ali's first book: a compact comic/artist's book built from the Greenheads that populate her paintings. Cute, severe, and unstable, the figures move through scenes of violence, costume, authority, and role confusion.

The book borrows the structure of comics — panels, sequence, repetition, colour — but removes the usual narrative supports. No speech, no captions, no clear moral order. Security figures, victims, aggressors, prisoners, bandits, and uniformed bodies appear as interchangeable positions. The result is deceptively simple: a small MoMA paperback in which violence is processed through graphic clarity and institutional calm.

Includes the original folded brochure with text by Kristin Helmick-Brunet, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings.

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