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 Species of Spaces Series (The Void), 2011. Inkjet print. 48 x 32 in. (Winner of DAZIBAO’s 2010 Jeune Tête d'Affiche Contest)
Partly inspired by Georges Perec's novel "A Void", in this work I removed all the keyboard keys of the letter 'e' from the computers of a library and left
them on a shelf designated for items to be restacked.
 
 
  Species of Spaces Series (From 10 to 1), 2011. Inkjet print. 48 x 32 in.
For this piece I reshelved nine translation dictionaries of the most spoken languages in the world, all into English, in a single row.
 
Species of Spaces Series (Sentence), 2011. Inkjet print. 48 x 32 in. (Winner of the 2011 Halifax Regional Municipality Contemporary Art Award)
A group of books arranged in a vertical column with the purpose of composing a poem with the titles.
 
Species of Spaces Series (From Red to Orange and Orange to Red), 2011. Inkjet print. 48 x 32 in.
 
Species of Spaces Series (Group of 8), 2011. Bilingual dictionaries. 27 x 27 in.
A group of bilingual dictionaries translating 6 languages among each other; from English to French, from French to Italian, from Italian to German,
from German to Russian, from Russian to Japanese and from Japanese back to English.