Marginalia 5
(2019); printed (2023)
from the Marginalia series 2019
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Measurements
- 143.5 × 118.0 cm (image and sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Mexico; Melbourne, Victoria
- Edition
- ed. 2/3
- Accession Number
- 2023.352
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2023
© Iñaki Bonillas - Gallery location
- Mid 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Books are both the source and subject of Iñaki Bonillas’s photographs. As is the case for so many of us, Bonillas’s earliest experiences with art and photography were not firsthand but through the mediated experience of the printed page. In his series Marginalia Bonillas explores the idea that the white borders on the edge of an illustrated page can become the connection between one image and the next, and one reader and the next. In a 2020 interview he said, ‘We as readers don’t get as involved with those empty spaces and I started thinking if there was a possibility to engage more deeply with those white spaces. This is how the investigation became what to do with those margins’.