In this piece, the books that were claimed by no one and were nothing more than valueless relics of the Communist past were stripped of their fundamental utility of being read. They stand as a fossilised warning of their own indelible existence even without being used, of the corollary of the history within and of the changes universal principles go through from time to time.
The politically outdated books have been donated by the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe, the once active radio channel, sponsored by the US, that fought against the Communism before the collapse of the Sovjet Union.
Grand Prix 2009 at the Young Artists Biennial in Montrouge.
http://www.jceforum.eu/?p=2580&lang=en
Technical information:
mixed media (using concrete and books)
variable dimensions (containing 16 ' L' shaped elements)
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