Through a large selection of color plates and close-ups, this catalogue offers a remarkable study of some of the artist’s monumental abstractions. The book starts with a text by artist Tacita Dean, which underlines the decisive role played by Julie Mehretu’s personal history, at the crossroads of Ethiopian and American cultures.

With Limbo, Sabine Moritz offers a very personal vision of the representation of war. Focusing on recent events like the Iraq war, and their emblematic weapons such as the helicopter, she explores the technological and ideological subtleties “new wars” have brought.

An extensive monograph on the artist's work, Metonymy was published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid which ran from February 6 - May 13, 2013.