ELIZE DE BEER
The work of the South African artist, based in Ireland, explores the materiality of the book, the visual dimension of written language — particularly influenced by her experience with dyslexia — using layers of text, images, textures, and forms to question how words carry (or do not carry) meaning as visual objects.
She has also investigated archival practices, libraries, and forms of access to knowledge, with works that incorporate bookbinding waste and test prints transformed into book-sculptures or installations that reflect on the institutional and affective role of books.
@ELIZEDEBEER.ART
2025
OFF THE PAGE
Faced with the concept of a contraption, the visual creator has created an intriguing way in which manual technology is essential. She has made a pop-up book sculpture where the moving forms establish diverse possibilities for reading and interpretation, always seeking something unconventional. In this way, the concept of the analog book is revisited, associated with the idea of the pop-up, causing images to leap forward in a game of meanings that each observer can continually reinterpret.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio | @oscardambrosioinsta
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VISUAL ARTS
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ELIZE
Sometimes being dyslexic means misreading things and laughing about it.
