| Consultation sur place, 2018 books, wood, steel installation, variable sizes bookshelf : 247×30×0,27 cm lectern : 127×55×47 cm edition : digital print, cover hot foil stamping 21×28 cm 200 pages consisting of 94 borrowed books 1:1 scale reproduction Exhibition view Proxy Paradise New Heads Fondation BNP ParibasArt Awards LiveInYourHead, Geneva Photo 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. |