Marginalia
2006
In Marginalia, Mallett examines language in the social context or readership; in keeping with her interest in unsanctioned forms of communication, she created this body of work focused on the marginalia in books collected from the Vancouver Public Library. She first created a public artwork for the Vancouver Public Library, followed by a body of smaller photographic works (first exhibited at Artspeak in Vancouver.) In the Marginalia works, Mallett poses the library as an alternative archive, accumulating ‘damaged’ materials to uncover a parasitic system of communication, which coexists with the ‘host’ institution of the library.
Marginalia, 4 Installation Views
Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver 2006-2007
The Bride and the Bachelors, 2006
Lightjet print
40” × 55”
Kids on the Brink, 2006
6 lightjet prints
each 17” × 20 1/2”
The Montreal Massacre, 2006
4 lightjet prints
each 19” × 24 1/2”
Klee Wyck, 2006
12 lightjet prints
each 18” × 23 1/2”
Paradise Lost, 2006
14 lightjet prints
each 16 3/4” × 24”
Marginalia (VPL), 2005
Installation
Vancouver Public Library
Kyla Mallett
Associate Professor
Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC V6H 3R9
www.ecuad.ca/people/profile/
email: kylamallett@gmail.com