Unfolded Books
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open the wound
to space
be texture
cry
cease to be a case
In Unfolded Books, the Archive to Get Myself Back project expands spatially, becoming unstable matter, an archive in motion, and a territory for sensitive research. The work is presented as an installation, but also as texture, case study, and affective resonance: a gesture of openness that allows the archive to breathe, fragment, and reconfigure itself in space.
As part of FELIFA – Festival of Photography and Graphic Arts Books, the exhibition was held in Room 512 (5th floor) of the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Centre (CCK), where I developed an installation constructed from the remains and traces of the publishing process itself. Discarded sheets from the book’s printing, prints of the project material on tissue paper and tracing paper, and tests carried out on the master copy of the risograph machine make up the material body of the work. These elements, usually relegated to the margins, take centre stage here, proposing a reading of the archive as a vulnerable, unstable and constantly changing body.
Three copies of the book were arranged within the installation, understood as multiple bodies within the archive. They no longer operate as devices for linear reading, but as material fragments of an ongoing process. The book moves away from its traditional function and is presented as an expanded object, traversed by layers of time, repetition and wear.
The exhibition thus functioned as a new instance of the project, another layer in its evolution. The book was once again dismantled and recomposed, insisting on its status as a living archive, open to new configurations and meanings. In this gesture, my participation in Unfolded Books allowed me to continue thinking about the relationship between image, word and matter as a field of experience where the archive is activated, exposed and transformed together with those who explore it.
PLACE AND DATE
FELIFA. Photography and Graphic Arts Book Festival. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Centre (CCK). Buenos Aires 16 October to 2 November 2025