Simon Brown
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Simon Brown "The Weight of Knowledge" at Benrubi Gallery
Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present, The Weight of Knowledge, a solo exhibition by Simon Brown. The exhibition will open on Thursday, November 20 and will be on view through Saturday, December 20. The Weight of Knowledge will be Simon Brown's first solo show at the gallery.
The photographs of books in Simon Brown's new show, The Weight of Knowledge, lend an unexpected materiality to language, that most insubstantial of cultural endeavors. The books in these images are tattered, misshapen, spotted with mold. Bindings are frayed, ink washed away until it's nearly invisible. Everything testifies to the tangible existence of language: to the human labor required to create and maintain both books and the words in them. The tactility of Brown's battered volumes reminds us that the physical world is constan...
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Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present, The Weight of Knowledge, a solo exhibition by Simon Brown. The exhibition will open on Thursday, November 20 and will be on view through Saturday, December 20. The Weight of Knowledge will be Simon Brown's first solo show at the gallery.
The photographs of books in Simon Brown's new show, The Weight of Knowledge, lend an unexpected materiality to language, that most insubstantial of cultural endeavors. The books in these images are tattered, misshapen, spotted with mold. Bindings are frayed, ink washed away until it's nearly invisible. Everything testifies to the tangible existence of language: to the human labor required to create and maintain both books and the words in them. The tactility of Brown's battered volumes reminds us that the physical world is constan...