Ready-made Ruin is the definitive survey of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro's twenty-year collaboration — a 448-page document of a practice that dismantles consumer culture, one prefabricated object at a time.
About This Book
Two decades of Healy and Cordeiro's practice is a long time to spend interrogating the wreckage of modern life, and Ready-made Ruin is the publication that matches that ambition. Their sculptures and installations reconstruct the detritus of consumer society — Lego, Ikea furniture, aircraft parts, architectural structures — into works that are simultaneously absurd and precise. The book moves through this body of work with a curatorial essay by Felicity Fenner anchoring the visual inventory, while approximately one thousand behind-the-scenes process photographs, printed in gold and concealed within specially folded pages, reward those who look closely. It is a publication structured like the artists' practice: layered, playful, and quietly unsettling.
Key Features
- 448 pages of full visual survey across two decades of sculpture and installation, with concealed process photography printed in gold within specially folded pages
- Essay by curator Felicity Fenner
- Published by Formist Editions
What You'll Discover
- How Healy and Cordeiro transform ready-made materials — from Lego to car and aircraft parts — into sculptures that interrogate the logic of consumer society
- The role of humour and art historical precedent in a practice that deconstructs prefabricated structures without losing formal rigour
- A preoccupation with global mobility and the contemporary idea of home, threaded through two decades of wildly varied installation work
- Approximately one thousand behind-the-scenes photographs printed in gold, concealed within the publication's folded pages — process as buried treasure
About the Author
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are Australian artists whose collaborative practice spans sculpture and installation. Working across two decades, they are known for reconfiguring prefabricated objects and structures — from Ikea furniture to dinosaur bones — into large-scale works that address consumer culture, global mobility, and the idea of home.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 448
- Dimensions: 215 × 280 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780648596394
- Publisher: Formist Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Contemporary art collectors, curators, and students of Australian art practice interested in sculpture, installation, and the cultural politics of consumer objects.