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Codigo Desconhecido #5

Date2015

Maker Marilá Dardot Brazilian, born 1972

Label TextThis work is part of a series that the artist began during a residency in Vienna, when she was surrounded by books printed in a language she could not read. Here she renders a series of books just as illegible by cutting them to the spine, evoking complex questions around language and communication: which stories are written and which are forgotten, what knowledge is passed on and to whom, and what is lost in translation.

Object number2023.22.9

ProvenanceThe artist; [Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil]; purchased from gallery by Dennis Braddock and Janice Niemi, Seattle, Washington, 2016

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Everyday Poetics, Nov. 18, 2017 - June 17, 2018. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Material Presence, January 18 - July 14 2024.

Credit LineGift of Dennis Braddock in memory of Janice Niemi

DimensionsOverall installation: 10 x 84 in (25.4 x 213.4 cm)

MediumBook spines, MDF, mounted with Velcro