Title: Litanies
Artist: Léa Lagasse
Format: 21 x 13 x 0.7 cm
In Litanies Léa Lagasse appropriates a piec of literature in a very mediated way. On her website, the artist writes that in this edition of If on a winter night a traveler, the first chapters of the ten books mentionned in Italo Calvino novel are printed on top of each other. The distorting process at work in Lagasse’s pieces often sparks off with her personal reading, which she turns into “meta-books”, commentary on the original text, yet contained within that text: Each edition carries a specific layout or device destined to echo the original narrative.