Video: Between the Past and the Future: The Book of Georgia Russell
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As a student at the Royal College of Art, Georgia Russell was walking through a flea market in Paris and came across a collection of old books. Passing row after row, the girl could not restrain herself from the thought of how dead and unloved all these publications look. Following this, the idea was born to breathe new life into old books. Well, now for the most interesting part of the story: in order to implement her idea, Georgia had to cut and shred all the books!
Cutting books to bring them back to life sounds pretty weird. But nevertheless, the idea worked. By transforming yellowed pages into whimsical organic forms and placing them under glass domes, Georgia has been successful. Her works aroused the interest of the audience, which means that they really gave the books a second life, perhaps even more interesting than the first.
Since then, the material Georgia has been working with has expanded significantly. Photos, sheet music, maps, money and newspapers were also added to the old books. But the cutting tool remains unchanged - it is an ordinary scalpel.
Georgia Russell says that it was no coincidence that she chose books for her work: “They all have their own history, their own secret life. They keep the warmth of many hands that held them, they made people think and let their thoughts pass through them …”Each work of the author contains both a sense of loss and preservation. Blooming and withering, calm and lush, they seem to be in the middle between life and death, between the past and the future.
Erich Fromm once noted: “Children often spoil things, take them apart to learn them. At the heart of such cruelty lies something deep - the desire to learn the hidden secrets of objects and life in general. " Georgia fully agrees with the statement of the great psychologist and adds: "In my works, destruction is at the same time construction: books die to come to life again."
Georgia was born in 1974 in the Scottish city of Elgin. Her work can be found at exhibitions all over the world: in the Netherlands, USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany and, of course, her native Scotland.
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