Kwan Queenie Li - Weeds: A Germinating Theory Handshake Books

Kwan Queenie Li - Weeds: A Germinating Theory Handshake BooksMACK 2026 For over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites. This essay in image and text proposes a new

proffering a multi-faceted view of her work and artistic trajectory

covering almost seventy years

colorful approach

Hardcover with die-cut cover

a somnambulistic account of nocturnal curiosity and quotidian peculiarity

casting a critical light on the idea of movement in these often abstract and geometric works

“obliquely suggestive of historical events

perhaps a booth or two

these texts frame the book not simply as a collection of photographs

Horses and cars are means of locomotion that travel at very different speeds

Having left Seoul at age seventeen to move to New York

Garry Winogrand is known primarily for his spontaneous and energetic street photography in black-and-white