Ash rises silence falls, 2012
Egidija Ciricaite, UK
| Egidija Ciricaite,
London, UK Ash rises silence falls is a quiet reflection on the experience of biblioclasm. The minutes of stillness and disbelief that follow the explosion are embodied into the quote by Kemal Bakarsic who witnessed the bombing of Sarajevo library. Burning ash from the books carries fragments of pages into the sky. Like a cluster of birds they form shapes. Or possibly a pattern that I saw as a frontispiece of Mamluk Koran (AD1338 / AH738). Egidija Ciricaite is a visual artist living and working in London. Her practice takes on a range of forms: from ceramics to workshops, from books to writing. The most recent pieces respond to the digital shift that redefined the book and induced fetishisation of the paper codex. Egidija questions and subverts the idea of the book. Egidija's work is found in numerous private and public collections, including Cambridge University and Tate Special Collections. The book comes in a semi-transparent envelope. Dimensions: 235 x320 mm (closed). Medium: Black card, various semitransparent papers. www.egidija.com mail@egidija.com |