Arte de Verão IV

Book Cell by Matej Krén [2006].
Installation | Hall CAMJAP

The Book Cell Project repeats the recurring procedure in the work of this artist, of pilling up thousands of books and creating a step-inside architectonic structure.

The memory and knowledge accumulated in the books gathered, closed and inaccessible, diverse and precious, will be potentially recovered in the end, when all of the books can return to their function of being read. Meanwhile, they will have been worked on as sculpting matter and as the spirit of the place where the artist intends to hold us: an hexagonal enclosure with a passage defined by mirrors that assure the vertigo of a fall, the ad infinitum fragmentation, the panic of spatial disorientation characteristic of a virtual infinity.

Book Cell gathers editions from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from the past 50 years, reinforcing the site specific nature of the work with the incorporation of one of the most precious streaks in the history of the cultural intervention of this institution.