Pratchaya Phinthong, My brain or my stomach, 2008

Two copies of the book “Existentialism” by John Macquarrie, 1976, two panels of Plexiglas 21 x 24,5 x 1 cm
Unique
Private Collection, Paris

The first book was destroyed by termites and the second was made by the artist as a replica of the first one.
“My work is seen sometimes as being about memory and the uses of repetition, and transformation in various forms. A book damaged by termites is a persistent form of representation of what it means to be invisible, in the copy and the original.”

Pratchaya Phinthong, My brain or my stomach, 2008

Two copies of the book “Existentialism” by John Macquarrie, 1976, two panels of Plexiglas 21 x 24,5 x 1 cm
Unique
Private Collection, Paris

The first book was destroyed by termites and the second was made by the artist as a replica of the first one.
“My work is seen sometimes as being about memory and the uses of repetition, and transformation in various forms. A book damaged by termites is a persistent form of representation of what it means to be invisible, in the copy and the original.”

Pratchaya Phinthong, My brain or my stomach, 2008

Two copies of the book “Existentialism” by John Macquarrie, 1976, two panels of Plexiglas 21 x 24,5 x 1 cm
Unique
Private Collection, Paris

The first book was destroyed by termites and the second was made by the artist as a replica of the first one.
“My work is seen sometimes as being about memory and the uses of repetition, and transformation in various forms. A book damaged by termites is a persistent form of representation of what it means to be invisible, in the copy and the original.”