Cheat Sheet
Júlía Hermannsdóttir
Hverdag Books
English
Softcover
Edition of 200
104 pages
120 x 180 mm
2023
ISBN 9788293633181
Cheat Sheet by Júlía Hermannsdóttir candidly documents debilitating auto-immune illness with generosity, directness and dark humor. Júlía was just 22 years old and still in university when her body mysteriously started failing her. Her sudden diagnosis and multiple surgeries resulted in a forced move out of New York City and home to Iceland, along with a sober re-evaluation of almost every aspect of her life. How would she continue to produce creative work, much less survive in a capitalistic society that devalues and displaces disabled bodies? Her “cheat sheet”, from which the artist book of the same name is adapted, is both a timeline and a (failed) resume, a litany of gore and the story of her young life; it is what she has prepared for the doctors and nurses who still cannot 100% confirm she has Crohn’s disease.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/tsundoku-art-book-fair-2023/products/cheat-sheet?_pos=1&_sid=4edae987e&_ss=r)
About the Artist
Júlía Hermannsdóttir is an Icelandic artist. She studied illustration at the Parsons School of Design in NYC and is now based in Reykjavík.
(source: https://www.instagram.com/jujuhermit/?hl=en)
About the Publisher
Hverdag Books is a micro press and self-publishing studio, est. 2016 by the artist Jessica Williams and located in Moss, Norway. Hverdag publishes unique and experimental editions for and about the everyday. Hverdag has an in-house publishing workshop based around a Risograph CV3230 with 8 drums (colors) and gives frequent-ish workhops in self-publishing and risograph printing.
hverdagbooks.com
(source: https://www.hverdagbooks.com/)
