Fifty Shades is an artist’s book of visual poems, satirising the class and gender politics of E.L. James’s bestselling novel Fifty Shades of Grey. It contains a series of fifty visual poems generated by collage, photocopy and digital technology, in various shades of grey.

The poems incorporate fragments of found text from photocopier bins, combined with text adapted from James’s Fifty Shades of Grey. The images that feature throughout Fifty Shadesare modelled after Rothko’s ‘colour field’ paintings, without the colour.

The poem-images in Fifty Shades concern social class, sexual repression, regulations, fear, humiliation, trust, employment, debt, snobbery, literature, status, aspiration, education, intimidation, politeness, the absence of colour, and other types of discomfort.

Jennie Cole (as Mary X Mas), Fifty Shades (2012)

Details:
Book measures 18 x 21 x 0.4 cm.
55 unnumbered pages.
Edition of 50.
An artist’s book by Jennie Cole (as Mary X Mas). Made in London, 2012.

Construction:
Covers and inner pages of 80gsm white copy paper.
Photocopied text and images, collaged and digitally printed in black toner ink.
Stab-bound with white linen thread.

Fifty Shades was exhibited at Caesura Gallery in 2012-2013.

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