(Not) Reading Ways of Seeing, Fernanda Fragateiro

«I am using books with content that is politically and culturally relevant but the contents of the books are inaccessible. I see them as paintings made of layers upon layers of deep contents, displayed only as an abstract monochromatic surface. 'Depth is hidden. Where? On the surface»










(Not) Reading Ways of Seeing, 2010
8 black hard cover "moleskine note books"
8 acrylic supports, pages from John Berger's Ways of Seeing, British
Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books, 1975
700 x 30 x 14 cm












Measuring E1027, 2011
21 hand made books, silk cover and acrylic
150 x 25 x 550 cm