Talking About Reading Finnegans Wake

Please join us on Tuesday, November 14, at 6pm for the presentation of Reading Finnegans Wake by Mexican artist Ximena Pérez Grobet. The artist will talk about her creative process of recomposing the text of James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. Using a classic edition published in 1965, Pérez Grobet unbound the book, carefully cut the text apart almost line by line, then reassembled it but still in the original order. The result is four knitted volumes that transform the materiality of Joyce’s language, establishing a new form of reading and a visual tribute to the complexity of the novel and its author. In this exclusive talk in collaboration with Celebrate Mexico Now, Pérez Grobet will take the audience through the nine-year process of creating, editing, and publishing a limited edition of Reading Finnegans Wake.

Ximena Pérez Grobet is the founder and owner of Nowhereman Press and the director of Artists’ Books for Artists, a commission-based project that encourages artists to translate their work into book format. Pérez Grobet has been creating her own artist books since 1994 and has presented her work in galleries, book fairs, and museums throughout Europe, USA, Mexico, and Latin America. She collaborates with other artists and collectives, producing artist books and special editions. She has worked as an editorial designer, curator, fair coordinator, and in art book production in various publishing houses around the world. Some of Pérez Grobet’s awards and grants include the Art Libris & Banc de Sabadell Award, the Charnwood Book Prize, and the Japan Cooperation Agency Grant.

Please note, this is an in-person event taking place at Center for Book Arts:

Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th St., 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10001