June 8 - July 7, 2023
Exhibitions focusing on paper often look through the lens of ‘works on paper,’ but here the material comes to the forefront, bringing together artists who use paper to make the work itself.
The existence of the word papyrophilia, meaning the 'preoccupation or love of paper,’ hints at the role it has played in the history of mankind. The invention of paper in China in the first century changed the course of history, this new technology superseding all others and allowing for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. Once printing as we know it was developed in Japan in 770 AD, this light and inexpensive material became indispensable. The importance of paper is undeniable, and today, despite the omnipresence of the digital in the world, we learn to write on paper, books are still printed, we continue to read news from it and we package and transport our goods in it. We all have a relationship to paper and this communal experience of the material is the point of departure for the exhibition.
