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 not) 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 artist created a thought-provoking approach in which manual technology is essential. She created a pop-up book sculpture in which mobile forms create diverse possibilities for reading and interpretation, always seeking something outside the conventional. 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 play of meanings that each observer can continually reframe.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio | @oscardambrosioinsta
ELIZE
by herself
Sometimes being dyslexic is reading wrong and laughing about it.
