Library of Amorphous Matter

Library of Amorphous Matter

2021

Wood, glass, light, notebooks

Variable dimensions, 8 shelving units each: 72 x 84 x 12 inches

Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or non-crystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery Room on custom “athenaeum-like” bookcases, features hundreds of intimately scaled, hand-blown glass slides, attesting to what Prince calls her longstanding “love affair with libraries.”

Source: Leora Maltz-Leca, exhibition curator

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