An exhibition curated and designed by Danne Ojeda
PAPER BRAINS is an exhibition curated by Danne Ojeda in collaboration with Lisa Kuitert (Book and Manuscript Studies) and the Special Collections Library, University of Amsterdam.
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Practice as research
The exhibition draws from Ojeda’s research for her creative practice on how human brains have been visualized throughout the history of books, as well as her professional creative practice in editorial and exhibition design. In creative arts, ‘practice as research’ might manifest by expanding beyond the scrutiny of library resources, or the reading of textual references, to a proactive engagement with the work of other writers, authors, and their consequent creative objects. Thus, Paper Brains creates a dialogical scenario with the audience and the diverse voices that inhabit the space via bibliographic visual citations in the exhibition space. In doing so, it also contextualizes historical books that have represented human brains, while becoming an innovative interactive exhibition-installation in the form of a book page in space.