Indexing Language (1999)

Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

hand screen printed book

Collection: National Library of Canada, & Bibliothéque National de Québec

Collaboration with Naomi London. Core of book in three colours, green, pink, yellow.

Each book was installed in a circular manner, no beginning nor end, on a light table so the colour in the core glowed onto the pages of the book. Edition of 15.