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LIBRARIES

2025

 

 

Libraries are the fabric that articulates the human experience, a vast archive where our fleeting mortality finds continuity in collective memory. Each book, as Jorge Luis Borges envisioned in “The Library of Babel”, is a vestige of thought and emotion, a thread connecting generations and defying the erosion of time. Within them, the fragile and individual are woven into a greater tapestry, transcending the transient condition of their creators.

 

More than mere repositories of knowledge, libraries are, as Alberto Manguel suggests in “The Library at Night”, monuments to suspended time—spaces where the past converses with the present and projects into the future. They function as systems of transmission, consolidating our collective identity as a species in an act of resistance against oblivion, echoing what Umberto Eco describes in “The Name of the Rose”: sanctuaries where humanity confronts its fragility by preserving, interpreting, and giving continuity to its ideas.

Vasconcelos 

Giclée print on conservation paper   //  110 × 150 cm

        

        

Staatsbibliotheke Unter Den Linden

Giclée print on conservation paper   //  150 × 220 cm

        

        

Reading Room British Museum

Giclée print on conservation paper   //  110 × 150 cm

        

        

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Giclée print on conservation paper   //  110 × 180 cm

        

        

Bibliothek Humboldt Universität

Giclée print on conservation paper   // 80 × 100 cm

        

        

British Museum – Reading Room Entrance

Giclée print on conservation paper   // 110 × 162 cm

        

        

British Museum

Giclée print on conservation paper   // 60 × 75 cm