The book, installation, art space Lower Austria, 2009
The book, installation, art space Lower Austria, 2009
THE BOOK
installation, art space Lower Austria, 2009
installation, art space Lower Austria, 2009
In The book Michail Michailov approaches the subject
of translation by simply transferring his own person, the artist subject-his
"self"-onto the white pages of a book. The name of the artist is written,
scattered across the individual pages of the object, but it is only when they
have read the whole book that the observers can identify and reconstruct the
artist's name, which is distinguished through the doubling of the sounds and
letters: M-ich-a-i-l-o-v. The artist's identity, reduced to the minimum of
text, solidifies with the reception of each individual letter and increasingly
resembles a signature or a business card, and not least an (auto-)
biography-there is sufficient free space for interpretation between the lines
and letters.
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