12/11/2025
Nici Jost: Silent Pink
114 × 169 mm
368 pages
thread stitching
dust jacket with perforation
English, Chinese
Concept: Nici Jost, Sonja Zagermann
Editorial team: Antonie Angerer, Anna-Victoria Eschbach, Nici Jost, Sonja Zagermann
Design: Sonja Zagermann
Lithography: Nici Jost
Texts: Dr. Isabel Balzer, Diyi Mergenthaler, Chongyin Yuan, Nici Jost
tria publishing platform, 2025
ISBN 978-3-906899-12-1
CHF 25, € 25
With Silent Pink, artist Nici Jost presents her second publication dedicated to the colour pink — a natural continuation of her long-term artistic investigation into this multifaceted hue.
Pink holds a central place in Jost’s artistic and personal universe. Over the years, she has systematically investigated the colour’s cultural,
social and historical layers, assembling an ever-growing archive of pink objects and articulating its aesthetic complexity through the development
of her Pink Colour System. During a research residency in Shanghai in 2018, Jost deepened her inquiry into the perception, use and linguistic
nuances of pink in China, expanding her system with two new shades first conceived in 2016: Peach Pink and Silent Pink.
The publication shows photographic sequences in which collected objects and urban observations enter into precise yet intuitive constellations. Some relationships reveal themselves through tonal
proximity; others emerge from the productive friction of seemingly unrelated elements. Pink here becomes a taxonomy — a principle that categorises, indexes, and connects. Between the images, personal
reflections by Diyi Mergenthaler and Chinese artist Chongyin Yuan deepen the readers’s understanding of Chinese culture and the reception of pink.
The dust jacket, printed in these two new shades, functions simultaneously as a material extension of the Pink Colour System — transforming the book into both document and specimen.
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