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The NWU Gallery proudly presents New Chapter, an all female group show of local artists to celebrate Women's Day. The ‘book’ is no longer the Holy Grail of the information world. We can access almost anything instantly through new technology by the brush of a fingertip.
Physical books, as differentiated from digital versions, tend to trigger memories both visual and tactile: our hands hold a book and feel the texture, our eyes read a book and adore the pictures, our minds awaken to the conceptual potential of the printed page and our muscle memory deepens our relationship with it.
The transformation of a ‘book’ to an art object is not only intentional recycling in the material sense, it is a rebirth of ideas, images, text and textures from a cultural past. This exhibition, “NEW CHAPTER”, intends to engage not only the visual appeal on the viewer’s eyes, but also the intellect, allowing for powerful commentary and exploring questions about the history and future of books as symbols of knowledge and joyful experience...find out more.
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