Authors Parasite 2.0
Location 121+ Bookshop, Milan, Italy
Year 2018 (23rd January - 3rd February)
Curator Corraini Editions and 121+ with the technical
support of Martini SPA
Photography Davide Galli
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The installation ‘Books from the Wilderness’, by Parasite 2.0, turned the interior of the Milanese bookshop 121+ into a desert inhabited by ruins from modernist architecture.
According to the Milan-based practice, the content and the container tell a unique story. In the first installment of a series organised by the publisher Corraini Editions, the volumes cover a wide range of tastes, for instance the anarchist Colin Ward, the artist Bruno Munari, the Japanese manga Fist of the North Star and the Bible.
Combined with shapes made of sponge and yellow lights, the 60 books printed by different publishing houses tell the tale of a long biblical voyage through the desert, a story of decadence and rebirth.
The project is an interpretation of the desert as a place of purification. It’s a habitat where the bequests of modernity become free elements devoid of their reciprocal relations.
These loose elements allow us to imagine new formulations and realities. One symbol of modernity is given by a scale reproduction of the Villa Savoye, the house built by Le Corbusier outside Paris in 1929.
Here, it is built from blocks of sponge meant to be taken apart and put back together in different ways by the public, according to circumstances or inclination.
Authors Parasite 2.0
Location 121+ Bookshop, Milan, Italy
Year 2018 (23rd January - 3rd February)
Curator Corraini Editions and 121+ with the technical
support of Martini SPA
Photography Davide Galli