Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Pranayama Organ, 2021
HD Digital Film
Director: Fiona Banner
Producer, Camera: Babak Zand Goodarzi
Producer: Alice Walters
Drone, Camera: Voytek Ketz
Production Assistant: Kirsty Harris
Production Assistant: Chris Ifould
Production Manager: Ruxandra Calin
Fiona Banner often works under the moniker of The Vanity Press. She established the imprint in 1997, with her seminal book The Nam. Since then she has published many works, some in the form of books, some sculptural, some performance based. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN number and registered herself as a publication under her own name. Humour, conflict and language are at the core of her work.
She first became known for her “wordscapes” – often heroically proportioned works that capture in her own words films, from war blockbusters to porn. She often works with the “nude”, transcribing the human form into category-defying prose. Sometimes she repurposes military aircraft to brutal, sensual, and comedic ends.
She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2002 and is the Royal Academy’s Professor of Perspective.
