Bride Machine

(2018)

Bride Machine is an artist multiple composed of 14 different folios of poetry with original artwork in a custom-made clamshell box, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even—  also known as The Large Glass. 

Composed of single letterpress broadsides, transparencies, chapbooks, and other printed works, each folio in Bride Machine is both a disruption and meditation on the act of reading, challenging readers’ assumptions about the codex and the ephemeral nature of the archive through the counter-narrative of its hinged, folded, coiled, bound and stapled elements. 

Part amuse-bouches, part artists' book, Bride Machine is a rigorous interrogation of desire, the fourth dimension, conceptual poetics, and the emancipation of Duchamp’s Bride from her apotheosis of virginity. 

Edition of 10

6 remaining copies available

Held in private and institutional collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario

$1250 CDN

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