"Nevibilonsky library" Automatic translate

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center presents the installation of Anna Nevrinsky and Alexander Brodsky "Nevavilonskaya Library".

The name of the installation refers to the famous Borges short story “The Babylonian Library”, which speaks of a fantastic endless expanding repository of texts. It is believed that this description anticipated today’s digital libraries.

The “Nevavilonsky library” - on the contrary, a monument to the library in the human, even domestic sense of the word. This is a library in which all books are selected, read and re-read, mourned and considered. This is a project again bringing together these components of what is for us a “book”. Its attractive objectivity is heaviness, gloss / dullness, color of binding, rustling pages and their smell, that atmosphere of calm and enchantment that inevitably overtakes a person who finds himself in a room full of books. And, actually, the text.

The “Nevavilonskaya Library” is a thousand books - or rather, a thousand paper editions of books - which Anna Narinskaya read and considers beautiful. There are fairy tales that she read to her in her childhood and which she later read to her children, poetry collections, great philosophical works, major world novels, cookbooks and comics. That is, those books from which human life is composed.

Alexander Brodsky places these books in a shell, inside of which partly a mysterious atmosphere of a rabbit hole is created, where Carol’s Alice fell (the hole, if anyone remembers, was forced by bookcases), and partly reproduces the spirit of a small mobile rural library. Visitors can pick up books, leaf through, read, rearrange in their own order.

Therefore, the library arises in just this way - from the personal relationship of man and book. In any case, the Nevilon Library.

The author of the idea and curator - Anna Narinskaya
Artist - Alexander Brodsky
Architects - Nadia Korbut, Cyril Ass