Superficial Reading is an installation of works that, being framed images, are not hung on the walls, but displayed like books on shelves. The viewer—contradicting the logical experience of facing a picture—has to take them and touch them in order to see them. Each object represents the surface of a reading content: a book, a container of discourses, generator of reflexion and mental images, which has been reduced to an unbrowsable object, to only spine and cover.
The project poses a different look at framed images and establishes a relation between book and artwork, between read and perceived discourse through the reading of text or of image. The pieces that compose the installation are drawings of texts that are found in the pages of books that are and have been important in my work.
Visitors can come, take a book-frame and “see”, and try to discover different levels of meaning. A close relationship is established with the work, an uncovering of the depth and not only the form, as we are accustomed to seeing at fairs where there is a widespread visual consumption of the surface.
