My brain or my stomach, 2008
Two copies of the book “Existentialism” by John Macquarrie, 1976, two panes of Plexiglas
21 x 24,5 x 1 cm
Unique piece
The first book is destroyed by termites and the second is a replica of the first one made by the artist.
'My work is seen sometimes as being about memory and the uses of repetition, transformation in various forms. A book damaged by termites is a persistent form of representa- tion of what it means to be invisible, in the copy and the original.'
Exhibited:
2008 FIAC, gb agency, Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris
Reproduced :
2011 Frieze, Issue #143, Luxury consuption and low cost production, labour, exchange, weight and money by Barbara Casavecchia
2010 Mousse Magazine, Issue # 26, Don’t Tell his Mother About This, By Raimundas Malasauskas