books, wood, steel installation, variable sizes 94 books borrowed bookshelf : 247 x 30 x 0,27 cm lectern : 127 x 55 x 47 cm edition : digital print, cover hot foil stamping 21 x 28 cm 200 pages consisting of 94 books 1:1 scale reproduction 2018 Exhibition view Proxy Paradise New Heads Fondation BNP ParibasArt Awards LiveInYourHead, Geneva ©Head-Raphaëlle Mueller https://www.letemps.ch/culture/head-jeunes-artistes-jouent-collectif | Dislocation of an extract from Walter Benjamin’s book Unpacking my Library : a talk about book collecting, using the decimal classification system which is a book organisation method used in libraries. The development of a new process of decoding and recoding allows to reconstitute a new book collection, all the books being borrowed from various libraries in Geneva. This new set is a codified translation of the original text. The text becomes object and the library sculpture. |