"I have made my most memorable purchases on trips, as a transient. Property and possession belong to the tactical sphere. Collectors are people with a tactical instinct; their experience teaches them that when they capture a strange city, the smallest antique shop can be a fortress, the most remote stationery store a key position. How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!"
- Walter Benjamin: "Unpacking my Library"
Out of Order #1,
as presented in Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Aug. 2005
installation view: 53 library books mounted on wall
as presented in Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Aug. 2005
installation view: 53 library books mounted on wall
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