Upright, fanned-open book with a white cover bearing a pastel pattern against a grey background.

Transparent Carriers

How can a book reveal and conceal at the same time?

Context

Alex Hojenski’s installation Transparent Carriers stretches between trees in a park, combining steel structures with translucent, patterned surfaces. The work changes with its surroundings: vegetation, light and architecture remain visible through it, while different layers overlap depending on the viewer’s position.

Approach

The publication translates this principle of transparency and layering into the structure of the book itself. Its pages are folded rather than simply cut, creating surfaces that conceal and reveal content as they are turned. Patterns derived from the work move between the visible and the hidden, while images, paper and print overlap throughout the publication.
The result is less a neutral documentation of the installation than a physical continuation of it: the book becomes a carrier itself, with information appearing through, behind and between its pages.

Front and back covers of “Transparent Carriers”, with white areas and speckled organic patterns in green, pink and orange.
Open book with a pink and green patterned left page and a white title page for “Durchsichtige Träger*innen / Transparent Carriers”.
White book spread with a German and English interview arranged in narrow, offset text columns.
Close-up of folded book pages forming wavy strips that layer photographs of tree trunks, branches and patterned installation surfaces.
Side view of stacked, folded book pages with black photographic bands and a blurred pink and green cover.
Photographic book spread looking into treetops where steel struts and cables support translucent patterned panels.
Book spread showing a radial steel structure among bare branches and autumn leaves against a blue sky.
Book spread showing translucent, irregular triangular panels in green and pink suspended from metal cables in a park.
An installation photograph among autumn trees on the left, beside a pale folded page revealing another image along its edge.
German and English essay spread with narrow text columns and a small black and white object illustration along the lower edge.
White book spread with German and English texts and a black and white image of a mesh-like wire structure.
Credits page with a small black and white photograph of the park installation beside a full-page speckled pattern in pink, green and orange.
Project Title
Transparent Carriers
Client
Alex Hojenski
Year
2024
Services
Editorial Design
Role
Concept Development, Design, Project Lead, Production Coordination
Graphic Design
Sarah Fricke, Lea Sievertsen, Pawel Wolowitsch (Distaff Studio)
Printing
spreedruck, Berlin
Photography
Lukas Pürmayr
Typeface
Rosart by Camelot Typefaces