Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster says she is a "prisoner of literature." In her installations, videoprojections and "apparitions" (performances) she tells amazing stories and uses a remarkable range of formal possibilities. This richly illustrated volume not only documents a new work by the French exceptional artist - a labyrinth of spatial installations that leads the viewer to an inner journey through time, the world of cinema, literature and science - but also marks her extraordinary career, from the sensational exhibition in the Tate Modern turbines to her bookstores at the Hispanic Society of America in New York. A number of essays by leading art experts address Gonzalez-Foerster's use of film, architecture and music as a means of self-exploration and artistic expression. An impressive and at the same time very personal portrait of an artist and her confrontation with time and literature, identity and narration.

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