
The Letting Go
Natascha Stellmach
Natascha Stellmach(Editor)
Natascha Stellmach(Artist)
Verlag Kettler
Will be published approx. on 17. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-3-98741-227-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Letting Go is a long-standing, performative, and participatory practice by artist Natascha Stellmach. It explores themes of vulnerability and empowerment.
Following a meditation and in response to the question, "What would you like to let go of?", the practice involves identifying, naming, embodying, and experiencing healing and impermanence through the body. Its method includes ritual tattooing without ink (a bloodline tattoo) to address a personal obstacle and initiate an intimate enquiry.
Over a period of almost ten years, Stellmach performed more than 120 sessions with individuals in galleries and privately, including herself. Through evocative photography, academic research, and participant-contributed selfies and reflections, the publication invites readers to embrace "the wonder in our wounds" and offers a deeply human portrait of what it means to let go.
The book includes a welcome message by acclaimed actor Sandra Hüller, as well as essays by curator and arts writer Kelly Gellatly and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Matthew McArdle.
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Language
English
German
Place of publication
Bönen
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 Illustrations, black and white; 218 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-98741-227-1 (9783987412271)
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