The Wiener Library is the world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era. This work resulted from an invitation to respond to the collection together with poets, survivors, writers and other interested parties to commemorate Holocaust memorial day 2001.
Every week a team of volunteers worked in the library removing staples from pamphlets and replacing them with linen thread taking care 'that shadow marks of lives shall not vanish' (Eva Hoffman; Storeys of Memory, the resulting publication).
'Storeys of Memory 1 and II' allude to book structures and binding techniques, to the unfolding of dark histories partially concealed. The works are suggestive of erased texts and of a re piecing and re stitching.
Every week a team of volunteers worked in the library removing staples from pamphlets and replacing them with linen thread taking care 'that shadow marks of lives shall not vanish' (Eva Hoffman; Storeys of Memory, the resulting publication).
'Storeys of Memory 1 and II' allude to book structures and binding techniques, to the unfolding of dark histories partially concealed. The works are suggestive of erased texts and of a re piecing and re stitching.
