Abigail Reynolds

Russian library net

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Year 2020
Medium Book page, flourescent paper
Dimensions 28 x 21.1 cm
Nominated by Beth Greenacre

About the work

This is a void that was left in a Russian library plate once I had cut out a net for a three-dimensional ball. When I cut into book pages, I always keep the remainder and sometimes this is just as interesting as the piece that I have removed. I like this net form because although the work is flat, I know it represents the room which has folded itself into a ball. In this instance, knowing this is more satisfying than seeing the ball of the room that I made. I used fluorescent paint to create the sense of an explosion in the library. I often think about voids in libraries in different ways, the most extravagant of these was a journey I made to the lost libraries of the silk road, undertaken in 2016-17 as part of the 3rd BMW Art Journey awarded to me at Art Basel. I cut this net of a Russian library in 2008 but it has remained in my scraps pile until now, when it seemed to me suddenly prescient.

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