Lauras Book, 2009, installation, artist book entitled Anatomy of remembrance, 210x148,5 mm, 19 pages and audio piece Soundtrack of my Mind, a poem/writing read by Laura Smith, duration 6' 58''
This is a recent piece in which I have chosen to make a new work out of the content of an old book. The history and Power of Mind by Richard Ingalese was given to me in singular, torn out pages by Laura. By taking the words and sentences out of their original context and rewriting them, I have created a new meaning out of relics stemming from the book’s original content.
The new written material is transformed into a sound piece in which the character speaks out her intimate thoughts and emotions, directly addressing it to another character, as well as the audience. This runs alongside a series of drawings, which I have gathered in the guise of an artist book, consisting of thread drawings of places. Based on photographs I have taken, they represent real, existing places, where memory is triggered by the long process of threading these characters and details related to the sites onto the paper. It is a reconstructed story of memories, dialogues and events that once happened in those captured sites.
Lauras Book: Anatomy of remembrance, 2009, artist book, front cover, 19 pages, 210x148,5mm
Lauras Book: Anatomy of Remembrance, 2009, artist book, 19 pages, 210x148,5mm
Lauras Book: Anatomy of remembrance, 2009, close up, 19 pages, 210x148,5mm
Lauras Book: Anatomy of remembrance, 2009, detail, 19 pages, 210x148,5mm
Lauras Book was exhibited during November 2009-January 2010 at the Kube Gallery, 'ReOpen Poole' in Poole, Dorset (curated by Ania Bas and Marianne Pape) and during February 2010 at Elysium Gallery, 'Dialogues: A Fake Romance?' in Swansea, Wales (curated by Diana Ali)http://dialoguesafakeromance.blogspot.com/
Supported by grant from the Department of Culture, Town of Rijeka, Croatia
