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sixteen drifters
Volume with box, 24 x 31 x 10 cm, archival prints on munken paper.
Compendium for the Hereafter is a retrospective glance on traditionally transmitted knowledge before the era of digital information. The Compendium is a replica of a classic encyclopedia, but the volume itself is empty, save for two pages hidden among its many others.
The Compendium contemplates the encyclopedic body not only as the vestige of “reliable” and “unquestionable” knowledge, but also as a container of fragments, one that however has already run its course. The volume is therefore a corpse set for its final journey to the afterlife—its own afterlife, but also that of its readership.
Together, Sixteen Drifters and the Compendium examined obsolete ways of dissemination and reception of knowledge and experience tying them metaphorically to the popular myth of Pandora’s jar as related by Hesiod in the poem Works and Days.
Both works were originally commissioned for exhibition by Ar.Co in Lisbon.