NOT PICTURED (2024)
unique artist’s book (reproductions of graphite rubbings printed on vellum, gray paper, waxed thread), 15 cm x 17 cm x 2.5 cm
unique artist’s book (reproductions of graphite rubbings printed on vellum, gray paper, waxed thread), 15 cm x 17 cm x 2.5 cm
EN / FR
Created as part of a workshop hosted by Ariane Schick at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, England, this artist's book traces the empty spaces found in pre-1940 family albums recovered after the Holocaust. At once a meditation on loss, postmemory, and the speculative archive, these layered vellum pages attempt to record the un-recordable, gesturing toward evidence left by missing photographs: dried glue residue, recessed picture windows, and torn album pages. Such physical traces signify archival objects that still remain incomplete, and—more importantly—the interrupted family histories they represent.
Created as part of a workshop hosted by Ariane Schick at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, England, this artist's book traces the empty spaces found in pre-1940 family albums recovered after the Holocaust. At once a meditation on loss, postmemory, and the speculative archive, these layered vellum pages attempt to record the un-recordable, gesturing toward evidence left by missing photographs: dried glue residue, recessed picture windows, and torn album pages. Such physical traces signify archival objects that still remain incomplete, and—more importantly—the interrupted family histories they represent.
