The Other Side of Silence (I, II and III)

Description:	Medium: altered book.Michelle Cioccoloni Born in Cuckfield, Sussex. Lives and works in Rome (Italy) and London (UK).2008 - 2012 BA(Hons) Drawing and Applied Arts: First Class. UWE, Bristol2012 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria 2012 - 2013 Postgraduate Programme, The Prince’s Drawing School, London Three books lie open, inviting the viewer to read them. Yet when one gets closer it becomes apparent the words are no longer there - the content has been erased and all that is left is a marked surface, an empty page. The attack on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad made me think about the feelings and mixed emotions such an event can cause. Mainly confusion, numbness and silence in the face of such atrocity. Silence is defined by what it is not. It is absence, hence, visually expressed, it is absence on the page. By erasing, scratching and deleting the printed words, nothing remains but punctuation, with silence between. The piece is also about the dichotomy of grief and remembrance, the people who have suffered, trying to forget and erase the pain, opposed to us, the ‘viewers’ of conflict through media reports and newspapers, trying to imagine what such a loss could mean to those involved.
Origin:	2012
Created By:	Cioccoloni, Michelle
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/355
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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