Zbigniew Sałaj - język w drewutni
Zbigniew Sałaj – language in a woodshed

Summary/Abstract: Library reminds of a dead forest. Paper industry cannot do without wood If not for the cellulose, one of its main ingredients, there would be no books. Zbigniew Sałaj reverses the process of paper production and makes logs out of books. Everywhere books no one reads – sit on the shelves, get covered in dust, clutter the space. Books no one buys – sit on the bookstore's counters and finally disappear, fall into oblivion. Somewhere there literary masterpieces are being born and then deadened by pulp fiction. Paper logs were made from these doomed books. Sałaj's woodshed provides an alternative vision of Jorge Luis Borges' Babel Library. Is there a raison d'être for the libraries any more in the times when literature more and more often proves to be waste-paper?

• Details
• Contents