Two new books on the artist are available to purchase in person at the gallery or via our online store.
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
This exquisitely produced book is published by Victoria Miro on the occasion of the exhibition Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins. Chris Ofili invited seven writers – Hilton Als, Inua Ellams, Marlon James, Anthony Joseph, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Attillah Springer, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – to contribute new writing. Like Ofili’s paintings, their poems and narratives are not confined to illustrating single sins but meditate, personally and expansively, on sinfulness.
Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun
This beautifully designed book reproduces Chris Ofili’s series of prints inspired by L’Après-midi d’un faune, Stéphane Mallarmé’s Symbolist poem of 1876. Mallarmé’s poem is printed in French and English alongside an essay by Minna Moore Ede, who traces the poem’s legacy across works by Debussy, Manet, Nijinsky and others, and considers its influence as a generative impulse in Ofili’s work.