Es Devlin: Library of Us / Faena Beach, Miami Beach

Описание: Es Devlin's “Library of Us” is a 50-foot revolving library installed at Faena Beach in Miami Beach during Miami Art Week 2025. The monumental art installation contains 2500 books including the texts that have influenced Es Devlin’s thinking, life and practice.

Es Devlin: Library of Us / Faena Beach, Miami Beach. Miami Beach (USA), December 6, 2025.

Exhibition text (excerpt):

The illuminated triangular sculpture rotates like a mirrored compass needle within a circular reflecting pool surrounded by a 70-foot- wide collective reading table, set daily with Devlin’s personally annotated books that viewers are invited to read as their seats revolve around one another. Each day, Devlin sets the reading table with her annotated, margin-scrawled books. On the outside circumference of the table there are static stools so visitors can sit and read. On the inside circumference the stools revolve slowly with the rotating bookshelf, allowing visitors to encounter a new text and a new face with each degree of rotation. One of the shelves in the revolving bookshelf is filled with a 30’ wide strip of LED subtitle screen. Throughout the day, phrases from 250 texts are illuminated on the screen accompanied by a recording of the artist’s voice reading them, underscored with compositions by British composers Polyphonia.

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