Ivo Sekulovski / Down the Jade Mountain forthcoming the Wǔyuè

the Wǔyuè

I’m surrounded only by gridlines

Simoens wrote down Alfons’s stories and photographed him during his visits

From October 2017 till May 2018 Simoens visited Alfons every week at 11:00 am

Ivo Sekulovski / Down the Jade Mountain forthcoming the WǔyuèDown the Jade Mountain is a concise exploration of identity crises across person, artist, family, country, and photography itself. Ivo Sekulovski, living in Italy and wrestling with belonging, embarks on a project in his hometown Ohrid, North Macedonia. The book reads like a series of visual riddles, every page bustling with hints and symbols; some universally readable, some deeply and irredeemably personal. In it, Ivo explores and dissects his family