Title

Sky in the Library

artMedium

video

measuredProperty

1min48s

artist

Sophie Cope

Description

Looping projected video work (scanned salvaged material and photograph of the sky above the library)
Notes:
The work is composed of scanned images of blue astronomical charts salvaged from Jagger Library, and a photograph of the sky above the library where roof used to be. Positioned as book pages, the projected maps and ’territories’ of the sky in the library fall through each other. I am thinking about the potential for disaster to allow us to re-see (or see for the first time) the things that remain. In the context of the Jagger Library fire specifically, these maps are marked both by hand-traced constellations, and by fire and water from the event. They stand as material records of the destruction of the library, and also as objects that have survived this destruction — albeit burned and changed. I am interested in these blurred relationships of maps and territories, change and constancy, and the life of the fragments in the aftermath.

Rights

Artwork copyright of Sophie Cope

Date

April 2022

Item sets

Of Smoke and Ash Artworks

Site pages

Exhibition