From his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Man Laramée (beforehand) creates otherworldly sculptures that mirror close by peaks like Pico da Caledônia. Utilizing a singular methodology of blasting vintage books with high-pressure water and stripping them of their covers, he manipulates the sure textual content blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.
When seen from sure angles, every sculpture’s identification as volumes of textual content practically vanishes as we understand mountains in miniature. As one strikes across the items, the inflexible type of stitched binding seems or printed pages ruffle and trace and the contents.
Laramée’s sculptures tread the road between object and panorama, juxtaposing themes of data, historical past, and archives with geology, time, and the surroundings. The artist usually employs dictionaries and encyclopedias, which always evolve and require updates, exploring the strain between bodily representations of data and studying and our relationship with the pure world.
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