Xhibit 2011

1968. Un-titled.

1968. Un-titled. will be shown @ Xhibit 2011.

Egidija

1968. Un-titled

Fired books

1968. Un-titled.

 

1968. Un-titled.

  

My present work focuses on memory, identity, historical truth, change, our links with past and fragility of those links. I take books, that no longer have the society that supports them and I reduce their materiality and their content to an immensely fragile state  - so fragile, that they may disintegrate in hands - just like the memory of the times, that they represent.

I do not fire random books. The books fired for this project come from a wheelbarrow in Lithuania: in the summer of 2009 they were ready for the fireplace. The books are old Soviet text books and propaganda books, published in the sixties and the seventies. They very much representative of their times and their locale. Not only for then truths they contain, but also for their indexality. So I cremate them, I purge them of the memories and the thoughts and the residue that they carry.




- Egidija Čiricaitė