From his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Man Laramée (beforehand) creates otherworldly sculptures that mirror close by peaks like Pico da Caledônia. Utilizing a singular technique of blasting vintage books with high-pressure water and stripping them of their covers, he manipulates the certain textual content blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.
When considered from sure angles, every sculpture’s identification as volumes of textual content almost vanishes as we understand mountains in miniature. As one strikes across the items, the inflexible type of stitched binding seems or printed pages ruffle and trace and the contents.
Laramée’s sculptures tread the road between object and panorama, juxtaposing themes of information, historical past, and archives with geology, time, and the setting. The artist typically employs dictionaries and encyclopedias, which continuously evolve and require updates, exploring the stress between bodily representations of knowledge and studying and our relationship with the pure world.
Discover extra on the artist’s web site.
