Robin Vaughan-Williams and Stéphanie Barbetta met at RuptureXIBIT’s Lawless Imagination exhibition in Hampton Wick (London) in December 2023. Their artistic and personal experiences brought them together around the theme of repair. In this collaboration, Robin’s words collide with Stéphanie’s images, throwing up alternative and layered readings that take us on a submarine route through subjectivity and the human condition. How do you make two universes resonate? How can a text meet an image, overlap, merge or simply breathe differently within a visual composition?

How to Fix a Human
Robin Vaughan-Williams & Stéphanie Barbetta
Published May 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-36-1
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 50
SLB0249
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Robin Vaughan-Williams is a poet, producer, and author of The Manager (Happenstance Press). He has run live literature events like Spoken Word Antics in Sheffield and Word of Mouth in Nottingham, and pioneered collaborative poetry improvisation. ‘How to Fix a Human’ is the first in a sequence of poems
exploring the human as variously mechanical, commodified, split, and out of sync with itself.
Find out more @robinrvw on Instagram or www.zeroquality.ne

Stéphanie Barbetta is an Italian-Swiss multidisciplinary artist. After a master’s degree in literature and post-graduate studies in theatre, she developed a practice that combines images, writing and performance. Laureate of the PEG in 2020 for her text Exploser d’amour, she mainly writes poems.
Her visual research is exhibited and published internationally (www.substancebrute.com/). Her first solo exhibition was held in Geneva at the Manoir de Cologny in 2023. A monograph on her project Empty Home will be published in May 2024.