This Mortal House B1

This Mortal House Building 1 seeks to translate into editorial form the artist’s performance at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul.

For 24 days, MSH built a brick labyrinth in the museum space, blindfolded, then destroyed it on the last day.

Based on the numerous photographs documenting the performance, the book offers a non-linear reading, itself subject to construction and deconstruction.

Unbound, like a diary, the reader is invited to follow two numberings, one in Arabic numerals, the other in Roman numerals. The first provides a chronological account of the event, while the second gives access to a new section of text and images. These different paths provide access to a labyrinth that is as visual as it is mental.

By folding, unfolding and assembling the sheets in different ways, we are led to modify our experience of the book and to apprehend the performance in a singular way.