Volume Eleven of the Chronicles and Collected Correspondences of the Cloth Merchant on Ponder Road
Item date(s): 2016
Mary Minicka
Size: 130 x 115 x 57 Edition: Unique
Place publication: Cape Town Publisher: The artist Exhibition 2017
Reference note: This work is inspired by my work as a conservator of archival records. The idea was to create a fictional archive. This archive is not necessarily readable or accessible to understanding, as is often the case when encountering historical documents in other languages (or in archaic language forms) which makes comprehension and establishment of an ordered timeline difficult. Archival records are often only a partial record, contingent on the vagaries of human agency, creation and preservation tactics.
Theme: Fictional archive
Commercially produced leather (red and textured brown), bookbinder's linen sewing thread; reclaimed pins and sewing thread from archival records undergoing conservation repair, 120 gsm paper.
Artist as sole producer
Exhibition notes: ‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.