Deborah Klein, Four pages from the unbound artist book, Leaves of Absence, 2017.
Installation view, State Library of Victoria, April 2023.
Selected pages from Leaves of Absence, my unbound artist book, are on display in the latest iteration of World of the Book in the Dome Galleries, Level 4, State Library of Victoria, amidst some remarkable examples of silhouette art.
Other exhibits include early editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and rare editions of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
The exhibition opened on 1 April 2023 and is current to 12 May 2024.
Pictured top: Memory 1, 16, 14 and 9 from Leaves of Absence, 2017, unbound artist book. Collection: State Library of Victoria.
Pictured below: The State Library’s splendid La Trobe Reading Room, viewed from the Dome Galleries.
