Guy Laramée, based in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, crafts unique sculptures that resemble mountains using a technique that involves high-pressure water to manipulate antique books. These works challenge perceptions, as they blur the lines between text and landscape, exemplifying the relationship between knowledge and nature. Laramée often utilizes dictionaries and encyclopedias, underscoring the tension between the evolving nature of information and our connection to the environment. By doing so, he invites observers to rethink the physical representation of knowledge against the backdrop of geological forms.
Laramée's sculptures tread the line between object and landscape, juxtaposing themes of knowledge, history, and archives with geology, time, and the environment.
Using a unique method of blasting antique books with high-pressure water, he manipulates the text blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.
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