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“Sala de Lectura Ovalada” (Oval Reading Room) a new piece by Los Carpinteros on show at at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.
Los Carpinteros are a Cuban collective whose art often begins with
everyday objects and functional designs. Here, shelving for books
becomes free-standing architecture - but with the books themselves left
out. The artists say the shape is derived from panopticon prisons
conceived in the 18th century, but the impression of the structure is
more space-age than antique. Libraries can feel almost like holy spaces,
and this one manages to feel that way, even without a book in site. It
seems to offer the unrealized promise of taking shelter behind a wall of
words.