Burial Sites Book Launch at Ulises in Philadelphia
Lydia Smith: Burial Sites Book Launch
Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 5-7pm
1525 N American Street
Studio 104, Ray Philly
Philly, PA
Join artist Lydia Smith for the launch of the multivolume artist book Burial Sites. Smith will share a reading paired with images selected from the project. A unique large-scale version of the book created for public exhibition will be displayed during the event for attendees to experience. Burial Sites was recently acquired by the Free Library of Philadelphia Maps Collection and features images of multiple Philadelphia cemeteries.
Burial Sites is an artist book and social practice project considering how burial landscapes reflect cultural rituals around death, mourning processes, and community politics. A project of accumulation, the book grapples with the task of documentation and the archive through images of monuments for the dead. Burial Sites comprises 13,000 images, spans 15 countries across six continents, and features over 250 cemeteries, memorials, crematoriums, and graveyards.
