Marginalia 4
(2019); printed (2023)
from the Marginalia series 2019
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
125.0 × 109.0 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2023
© Iñaki Bonillas
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Books are both the source and subject of Iñaki Bonillas’s photographs. As is the case for so many of us, Bonillas’s earliest experiences with art and photography were not firsthand but through the mediated experience of the printed page. In his series Marginalia Bonillas explores the idea that the white borders on the edge of an illustrated page can become the connection between one image and the next, and one reader and the next. In a 2020 interview he said, ‘We as readers don’t get as involved with those empty spaces and I started thinking if there was a possibility to engage more deeply with those white spaces. This is how the investigation became what to do with those margins’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mexico; Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
ed. 2/3
Accession Number
2023.351
Department
International Photography