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Touch, and Tender Readings. Books as Archives.

Date
2023
Publisher
Small Walker Press
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
ISBN 978-1-990208-30-0
Size
15 × 21 × 0.5 cm
Length
48 pp
Genre
Books on Books
Description

Two artists – Brandon LaBelle and Annette le Fort – visit their local public library, check out a few books, keep these for a few days then return them. The text and black-and-white photographs included in Touch, and Tender Readings. Books As Archives document this trip to the library. They evoke a sensory experience – tactile, visual, and olfactive – and a meditative performance – walking through the stacks, touching book covers, turning the pages of a book. LaBelle and le Fort present the library as an organic space and the destination of an intellectual and sensuous journey during which thoughts expand quickly beyond the books displayed on the shelves.

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