Swiper

By: Edwin Tran

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Paperback | 1 January 2025

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68 Pages

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11.2 x 39.9 x 1.1

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Swiper is an artist's book chronicling an unlikely sequence of events that unfolded in the summer of 2023:After going out for drinks with a man named Joshua whom she met on Tinder, 25-year-old New York Cityresident Alexis Douge spent the night with her date back at her Brooklyn apartment—only to find out thenext morning that he had stolen her pair of Tabis. Alexis posted a series of videos on TikTok recounting thesituation, which immediately took social media by storm and sparked an Internet-wide craze for the newlydubbed "Tabi swiper."The publication documents the story's viral reception across social media—stylized in the visual language ofearly means of Internet-mediated communication such as text-based chat clients and message boards—while shining a spotlight on the Internet lore surrounding Maison Margiela's iconic split-toe silhouette. Edwin Tran's Swiper is a 2024 recipient of the Visual Artists: Creation grant from the Toronto Arts Council. Published by flana flana books, 68 pages, 4.375 x 7 in., softcover, 2024, ISBN 978-1-0690508-0-9

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