Cover of Guiones by Maureen Muse, Munir Toral, and Kyle Whittall, featuring a minimalist embroidered eye on textured fabric.

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Black-and-white photograph of a figure arching backward in a performance pose from Guiones, 2021.

Close-up of a monochrome portrait printed on rice paper, showing translucent layering from Guiones.

Hand-printed silver gelatin image from Guiones, highlighting the book’s analog, darkroom-based process.

Rice-paper spread from Guiones with overlapping images creating a ghostly, translucent effect.

Performance documentation photograph from Guiones, featuring a figure in a minimal interior space.

Detail shot of the textured linen cover of Guiones, embroidered with a single stylized eye.

Black-and-white image from Guiones showing a partially obscured figure captured in analog film.

Interior spread of Guiones displaying layered rice-paper pages that reveal traces of the preceding image.

Artist book layout from Guiones, showing the interplay of transparency and shadow between pages.

Monochrome performance still printed on rice paper—part of the 2021 Guiones photo book edition of 100.

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Published by: Maureen Muse, Munir Toral & Kyle Whittall, 2021
Softcover, 32 × 32 cm
Edition of 100
Includes a silver-gelatin print signed by Maureen Muse
Language: English
Condition: Excellent. Clean interior, tight binding; minimal handling marks from production and storage. Print is pristine, with deep tonal range and no visible wear.

Guiones is a collaborative photobook by Maureen Muse, Munir Toral, and Kyle Whittall, conceived in Mexico City in the spring of 2021. The project began with the documentation of Toral’s performances ephemeral gestures that exist primarily through the images that record them. Shot on analog film by Muse, these performances were later hand-printed in the darkroom before being scanned and printed on delicate rice paper.

The materiality of the rice paper is central: its partial transparency builds a layered visual experience where each page carries traces of what came before and hints at what follows. This translucency introduces a subtle, erotic, and almost spectral quality, allowing the black-and-white images to speak to each other across time and sequence.

Rather than forming a linear narrative, the images unfold rhythmically like notes in a composition blending, echoing, and diverging while preserving their individual presence. The result is a book that feels both meticulous and instinctive, a study of gesture, embodiment, and the fragile spaces between visibility and disappearance.

This edition of 100 includes an original silver-gelatin print signed by Maureen Muse, underscoring the project’s emphasis on material process, craft, and the intimate relationship between performance, documentation, and the printed image.