BARBARA WILDENBOER
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse I
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse II
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse III
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse IV
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse V
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse VI
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, A Brief History of the Multiverse VII
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, Cosmological Observations
Hand-cut paper sculpture with clock mechanism
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, The Record Atlas
Altered book (hand-cut), 59 x 59 cm
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, The Times Atlas
Altered book (hand-cut), 52 x 47 cm
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, World Atlas
Altered book (hand-cut), 69.5 x 55 cm
Barbara Wildenboer’s reimagined maps are ticking timepieces that speak of shifting borders shaped by geopolitics, geology, and climate, while her altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
The artist’s use of old books and maps invites us to consider ways in which humans feel compelled to interpret, fix and navigate the mysteries of life with atlases, maps and scientific devices. Guided by her intuition, the artist herself is on a quest to understand more. Magnetism, gravity and electricity, the celestial orbits and star cycles are all phenomena ‘discovered’ by science, yet their mysteries have not yet been entirely revealed. *
*Extract from an original text by Miranthe Staden Garbett, 2020
Contact: info@everardlondon.com
Image credit: Michael Hall / Dan Weill Photography
BARBARA WILDENBOER, Encyclopedias
Altered book (hand cut), 65 x 55 cm
Barbara Wildenboer uses a combination of analogue and digital processes to create sculptural artworks that consist of collage, photo and paper-construction as well as digitally animated photographic sculpture. Wildenboer also creates delicately-cut altered books which often contain maps, atlases and scientific subject matter, sometimes using images from the book as central elements to her pieces. Imagery and words become components of the larger designs, as she crafts new visual narratives from the raw material.
BARBARA WILDENBOER, Pears Cyclopedia
Altered book (hand cut), 54 x 51 cm
Barbara Wildenboer is a South African artist who uses a combination of analog and digital processes to create work that mostly consists of collage, photo-and-paper construction, installation, digitally animated collage works, and book arts.
Her trademark ‘altered books’ function as narrative clues, intertexts or ‘subtitles’ accompanying the other works, referring to subject matter ranging from ancient history, archaeology and fractal geometry to psychoanalysis.
The altered book series 'Library of the Infinitesimally Small' and 'Unimaginable Large' (2011–present) was inspired by a short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges titled The Library of Babel. In this large-scale ongoing project she uses the library as a metaphor for the universe.
Barbara Wildenboer’s altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
Barbara Wildenboer uses a combination of analogue and digital processes to create sculptural artworks that consist of collage, photo and paper-construction as well as digitally animated photographic sculpture. Wildenboer also creates delicately-cut altered books which often contain maps, atlases and scientific subject matter, sometimes using images from the book as central elements to her pieces. Imagery and words become components of the larger designs, as she crafts new visual narratives from the raw material.
BARBARA WILDENBOER, Pocket Oxford Dictionary
Altered book (hand cut), 54 x 51 cm
Barbara Wildenboer is a South African artist who uses a combination of analog and digital processes to create work that mostly consists of collage, photo-and-paper construction, installation, digitally animated collage works, and book arts.
Her trademark ‘altered books’ function as narrative clues, intertexts or ‘subtitles’ accompanying the other works, referring to subject matter ranging from ancient history, archaeology and fractal geometry to psychoanalysis.
The altered book series 'Library of the Infinitesimally Small' and 'Unimaginable Large' (2011–present) was inspired by a short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges titled The Library of Babel. In this large-scale ongoing project she uses the library as a metaphor for the universe.
Barbara Wildenboer’s altered books breathe renewed life into previously prized objects that are disappearing into obsolescence in our digital age.
Barbara Wildenboer uses a combination of analogue and digital processes to create sculptural artworks that consist of collage, photo and paper-construction as well as digitally animated photographic sculpture. Wildenboer also creates delicately-cut altered books which often contain maps, atlases and scientific subject matter, sometimes using images from the book as central elements to her pieces. Imagery and words become components of the larger designs, as she crafts new visual narratives from the raw material.
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.