Maureen de Jager Heléne van Aswegen
- (bookbinding by)
Size: 220 x 180 x 100mm Binding: Hand bound; Clamshell/solander box Technique: Digital print Edition: #1/4 with 1 artist`s proof
Theme(s): South African War record
Place publication: Grahamstown Publisher: The artist Exhibition 2017
Reference note: WO 32/8061 [The Book of Holes] features 172 sequential photographs, collated into a book with uncut pages, documenting the punch holes indiscriminately made in record WO 32/8061 - a collection of reports on the South African War held in the UK National Archives. Specifically, the photographs track the path of a treasury tag feeding into these haphazard holes, and the proximate sites of wounding. A link is thus suggested between the damage described in the reports, the damage of the punch-holes, and the wounding act of reading: because the pages of the book are uncut, accessing the contents necessitates violence
A hand-bound book with uncut pages, in a solander box with accompanying objects
Exhibition notes: ‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.