2081,
2018 - 2020
Handmade recycled paper (full text of 1984 by George Orwell in the Folio collection) presented in a craft bookbinding
(neutral cardboard, felt and blotting paper) /
28 X 22 X 5 cm
2081 is a book. It is a re-creation:
The text 1984 of G. Orwell of a banal copy in collection Folio was destroyed in its entirety to be recycled in paper.
This one was realized according to the traditional paper-making method: by hand, sheet by sheet.
These new pages, less numerous and not bound, constitute a new book: an incunabulum, in its etymological meaning.
Unique copy, 2081 presents the result of an action, that of the erasure of the words – and thus of the language –until their disappearance.