“I have made works built from pieces of books since 2014. It all started when I was doing a residency in Vienna. Sur- rounded by books written in a language I do not read, my attention turned to its parts, to the very matter of which they were made. Freed from its words, from those books I read their bodies: cov- ers, text blocks and endpapers; colors, shapes and drawings from different times and different origins. It was when i started the series Minha biblioteca (My Library) and Código deconhecido (Unknown Code) series. Over the years, parts of books have been accumulating in my atelier, and from these has come other works: Investigação (Research), Antologia de Inverno (Winter Anthology), Flyleaf, A pronúncia do mundo (The Naming of the World).
I’ve sometimes wondered why I, the book lover, dared destroy these books. I found that bibliophagy, like anthropoph- agy, could be liberating. I understood that, apart from the pleasure I enjoy from the formal practice of these ex- periments, these wordless works, mute at first glance, embodied other poten- tials and other readings. Their silences engender the dialogical construction of new narratives, a new naming of the world, an act of creation.”
Marilá Dardot, 2019
“I have made works built from pieces of books since 2014. It all started when I was doing a residency in Vienna. Sur- rounded by books written in a language I do not read, my attention turned to its parts, to the very matter of which they were made. Freed from its words, from those books I read their bodies: cov- ers, text blocks and endpapers; colors, shapes and drawings from different times and different origins. It was when i started the series Minha biblioteca (My Library) and Código deconhecido (Unknown Code) series. Over the years, parts of books have been accumulating in my atelier, and from these has come other works: Investigação (Research), Antologia de Inverno (Winter Anthology), Flyleaf, A pronúncia do mundo (The Naming of the World).
I’ve sometimes wondered why I, the book lover, dared destroy these books. I found that bibliophagy, like anthropoph- agy, could be liberating. I understood that, apart from the pleasure I enjoy from the formal practice of these ex- periments, these wordless works, mute at first glance, embodied other poten- tials and other readings. Their silences engender the dialogical construction of new narratives, a new naming of the world, an act of creation.”
Marilá Dardot, 2019
