BY THIS UNWINKING NIGHT
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Saturday 4th of February – Sunday 1st of April, 2012
Currently
showing at Latrobe Regional Gallery, 138 Commercial Road, Morwell
(Victoria)
Dear you,
We've borrowed a line from J. Milton and assembled beneath it a gathering
of works on paper new, recent, and near-to forgotten. We are using it
as the roof to our shelter. Prints, artists' books, collage, drawings,
and small publications laid out for you By This Unwinking Night.
Yours in paper covered,
Gracia & Louise
List of works (pdf)
(An introduction to) By This
Unwinking Night
A small note: "By this unwinking night"
features in the translation of 17th-century English poet John Milton's
sonnet, On His Blindness, from French back into English in
Georges Perec's novel A Void (La Disparition). Written
in the French language in 1969, La Disparition is a lipogram
in which no letter E appears. It was translated from the French into
English in 1994, still deliciously deprived of an E, by Gilbert Adair.
Thus, Milton's On His Blindness becomes On His Glaucoma
in our Vintage Classics translation published in 2008. This game reminiscent
of Chinese Whispers amuses us and seems a rich ground to pitch our tent.
Recently,
You're
invited.
Come
along, do.
In
a series of flying leaps.
Feathers
in place and goats on the loose.
This
gallery is no longer closed for installation.
The
winged shimmy.
The
installation limber.
Gracia
Haby & Louise Jennison
The arrival
2011
collage