Kyler Zeleny - Bury Me in the Back Forty / SIGNED

Released 2024Published by The Velvet CellPhotographs by Kyler ZelenySigned by ArtistDetails:Edition of 600 copies210 x 267 mm / 8.3 x 10.5 inches168 PagesHardcoverISBN 978-1-908889-96-6TVC100 Bury Me in the Back Forty is the highly anticipated successor to the sold-out books "Out West" and "Crown Ditch" by Kyler Zeleny and the final chapter in his prairie trilogy. For a decade now, Kyler Zeleny has been documenting his hometown, a rural community on the Canadian Prairies with deep Ukrainian roots, consisting of 915 people. Based on the idea that the story of any place evolves over time, Zeleny has been using his own photographs, collected objects, community archives, and hidden histories, to revise the community’s history book from the year 1980.  The result is a pluralistic history of the community that embraces both official and unofficial accounts of events in the community's past—a community album that contains not only the roses but also the numerous thorns attached to each stem.