a library to scale (part 2)

2007

There is a sense in which things become real through their repetition. a library to scale records a likeness of a collection of scrapbooks, a visual re-enactment of a compelling collection of books; it engages us in a process of recovery, retrieval, and re-presentation. It seeks to bind Frederick B. Butler’s project anew, to look back on it from the very particular time and space of the now…

From the artist’s statement for the exhibition a library to scale

img_2708ps — *a library to scale*, installation view, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2007.

Camera Club. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Errors. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

New Plymouth. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Nudes. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Remedies. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Samuel Butler. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Weather. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Butler Family. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Body Building. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

Marsland Hill. From the F.B. Butler Collection, Frances and Sereena Burton, Thames. Digital video, varying dimensions.

3600 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3598 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3597 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3596 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3595 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3594 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3593 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

3592 — *a library to scale*, installation view, *Unpacking My Library*, Te Tuhi Centre For the Arts, Auckalnd, 2010. Photographer Sam Hartnett.

Special thanks to Puke Ariki and Sereena and Frances Burton for helping make this exhibition possible.