Artwork Details
Artist
Chihoi
Title
How to Read 2
Year
2022
Medium
acrylic and pencil on paper
Dimensions
29.7 × 21cm
Remark
Status
Available
Price
HK$10,000-25,000
Info
The ideas take shape as words and images of a book. That is the content.
The content takes shape through bookbinding, to become a book.
The codex format of bookbinding has developed over centuries for effective circulation of books, and wider communication of idea and knowledge.
“How to Read” is a series of drawings of possible / impossible ways of bookbinding, that may dictate or open up ways of reading and the navigation of pages. It invites, on one hand, the author to create the content to be read in a certain way that the binding accommodates, on the other hand poses technical challenges to the bookbinder to realize the book-object.