• Terence Koh, The Whole Family, front cover. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008. Plain cream-white softcover with no image. Title 'THE WHOLE FAMILY / TERENCE KOH' in small serif capitals at centre, with exhibition dates and venue 'May 10–June 21, 2008 Peres Projects, Los Angeles' below.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, interior full-bleed spread. Colour video-still photograph of a young boy in a denim and grey varsity jacket, smiling, hands raised and crossed at wrist, against a pale blue-grey background. Low-resolution, VHS-quality image. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, interior spread. Left: black-and-white photograph of light scattered across a dark surface, bokeh effect. Right: playlist titled 'music for the boy(s) alone in the treehouse after the snowstorm', a compilation by march21 for asianpunkboy, now terence koh. 31 tracks listed including Boards of Canada, This Mortal Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, David Bowie, Slowdive, Cat Stevens, Ennio Morricone, The Smiths. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, interior spread. Left: text titled 'black hole son', signed 'x bruce labruce', describing asianpunkboy's practice and persona. Right: colour photograph of a white ceramic figurine of a diver on a shelf, casting a shadow. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, interior spread. Left: colour photograph of a crystal-encrusted syringe or dagger-like object glowing against a pale lavender background, small crystal fragments scattered nearby. Right: snapshot photograph of two men embracing on a bed, one in a pink sweatshirt, colourful bedding visible. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, interior spread. Left: prose poem by Terence Koh, dated May 1st 2008, beginning 'the rabbit was walking and said to the dead owl / if the moon was up that night', ending 'i knew that we could be a whole family then / again all of us'. Right: blank cream page. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008.
  • Terence Koh, The Whole Family, back cover. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008. Plain cream-white stock, no text or image. Age toning and surface marks visible to wrappers.
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Terence Koh — The Whole Family

Terence Koh — The Whole Family

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Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2008
Softcover artist’s book / exhibition publication
36 pp.
Approx. 19 × 12.7 cm / 7.5 × 5 in.
Colour and black-and-white images
Texts by Terence Koh and others
Published on the occasion of The Whole Family, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 10 May–21 June 2008

Condition: Good / very good. Light handling, surface marks, rubbing and age toning to wrappers, with some visible marks to rear cover. Interior clean, binding sound.

Published for Terence Koh’s 2008 exhibition at Peres Projects, The Whole Family sits inside the compressed social mythology around Koh, Javier Peres, Asianpunkboy, performance, glamour, damage, intimacy, and late-2000s art-world image culture. The book mixes photographs, short texts, playlist-like material, personal fragments, and staged documentation. It reads less as a standard catalogue than as a soft record of a circle: friends, animals, aliases, props, music, bodies, and gallery life converted into printed matter.

Koh’s work at this point moved between monochrome ritual, queer theatricality, celebrity proximity, self-mythology, and controlled abjection. Here that language becomes small, pale, and portable. The publication keeps the exhibition in a minor key: white space, soft images, sentimental texts, sharp objects, and a family structure that appears both real and performed.

A gallery catalogue as social residue.
A small book object from the Peres Projects system.

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