The House Of Books Has No Windows, 2008
This work was made especially for this exhibition, and began life as a sketch in one of the notebooks kept individually by Cardiff and Miller over the last 18 years. A selection of pages from these is published as a companion volume to the exhibition catalogue. Books, the stories they tell and the opportunity they offer for escape into other worlds, are a key inspiration for the artists:
‘I love libraries because of the layers of time and meaning they contain. I like how you can escape into other worlds in a library, how when you open a book, you’re somewhere else’
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Installation incorporating c. 5,000 books.
Commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Modern Art Oxford and with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
