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Exercises on literary archaeology Work detail

Pablo Dompé

Fundación Itaú Argentina

Fundación Itaú Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina

I make a reappropriation of books, resignifying their content, decontextualizing it to narrate diverse situations with a poetic, biologic and topographic approach. I use procedures that come from archaeology and visual arts. The shapes of the woods that are found in the pieces have different roles: they are characters or places that inhabit or transit the books and show features of ambiguous and uncontrollable biological forms, unburied in the diverse literary volumes. Wood keeps an intimate relationship with books, since it is their main raw material, but in this case, besides being part of them, it inhabits and questions them simultaneously.

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  • Title: Exercises on literary archaeology Work detail
  • Creator: Pablo Dompé
  • Date Created: 2021
  • Date Published: 2022
  • Location: Buenos Aires
  • Physical Dimensions: 155 x 145 x 50 cm
  • Original Language: Español
  • Provenance: Finalists of 14th Itaú Artes Visuales Award. 2022-2023.
  • Type: Sculpture
  • Publisher: Itaú Foundation Argentina
  • Medium: Sculpture (quebracho, chinaberry and fir tree wood, carved and burned; intervened books; plywood sheets)
Fundación Itaú Argentina

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