In the context of theory and political analysis images are usually supposed to document, exemplify or simply illustrate. That images could do much more here has been known for a while. The question is : How exactly does that work?

In this artist’s book Olga Lewicka experiments with the image of the cloud as a self-contained argument and leverage point for visual forms of critical analysis. In sometimes experimental, sometimes meticulously composed collages she exposes the wealth of relationships that the visual and cultural history of clouds maintains with consequential historical lines and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.