Writing and books are part of my personal space.
Shoot Reading
Commissioned by Phoenix Gallery for the exhibition about artist books Press & Release 2013
A collection of books were shot with an air rifle, a .22 gun and a double barrelled shot gun. Pages were taken at random from the shot books and collated into another book. A dice was thrown. The number indicated how many pages to turn (for this reading the number was 5). The words which had been shot, or which were nearest to the shoot were selected. When the word was not completely legible, a guess was made and this appears in brackets.
The Blind Reader
There is something brutal about being blinded by precisely what you want to see/read/explore. It also went to the core of one of the metaphors most closely associated with the book, the book as a source of enlightenment; I wanted to explore the other side, the possibility that this same enlightenment could make us blind.
I can read you like a book
We read each other, we exchanged stories, and the more we read each other the more we got entangled, we bind, bound, bonded with each other, all through our books. We are made of stories, stories that shape us, characters we want to become, and characters we see in others. What does it all mean?
With Johanna Rönkkö
We read the same differently
I worked in this project with Ed Briggs (laboratoro) and we wanted to show the instability and fragility of this activity.
We wanted to go beyond differences on interpretation and show that the difference is already in the reading.
Xelís de Toro’s height is 1,72 cm in books
