Fragmentary Evidence

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:54:42 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Neumark, Devora

Artwork creator(s):

Neumark, Devora

Text author(s):

Neumark, Devora

Text author(s):

Neumark, Devora

Installation year:

1993

Remarks on location:

The performance took place in the reading room.

Artwork description

Description:

Looking back at history as official interpretation of facts, and in this context, the power of institutions, the artist created three hundred artistic books that she presented at the reading room of the Bibliothèque nationale. All contain the same information, but each numbered and signed copy is unique as the order in which the text is presented varies from one book to another. Neumark explores the subject of "the commemoration of knowledge through books." The books are printed in Duotone with colour images. Each book includes an introduction page, 13 photographic images, 11 pages of text and 2 fly leaves. The press run is of 150 numbered copies, signed and presented in a cardboard folder.

Text of the artwork:

Book

History

History:

Event : Making a Book: Fragmentary Evidence

Event date(s):

1993

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Devora Neumark

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Making a Book : Fragmentary Evidence

Fragmentary Evidence

Book