By this unwinking light

BY THIS UNWINKING NIGHT
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Saturday 4th of February – Sunday 1st of April, 2012

Forthcoming exhibition at Latrobe Regional Gallery, 138 Commercial Road, Morwell (Victoria)

Dear you,

We've borrowed a line from J. Milton and assembled beneath it a gathering of works on paper new, recent, and near-to forgotten. We are using it as the roof to our shelter. Prints, artists' books, collage, drawings, and small publications laid out for you By This Unwinking Night.

Yours in paper covered,
Gracia & Louise

A small note: "By this unwinking night" features in the translation of 17th-century English poet John Milton's sonnet, On His Blindness, from French back into English in Georges Perec's novel A Void (La Disparition). Written in the French language in 1969, La Disparition is a lipogram in which no letter E appears. It was translated from the French into English in 1994, still deliciously deprived of an E, by Gilbert Adair. Thus, Milton's On His Blindness becomes On His Glaucoma in our Vintage Classics translation published in 2008. This game reminiscent of Chinese Whispers amuses us and seems a rich ground to pitch our tent.

More soon. Until then, head to either Elsewhere or High Up in the Trees.


Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
The unexplained
2011
collage