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Found in Translation, an exhibit of artists’ books, prints and digital media exploring the processes of translation, opens for limited engagement at Millersville University’s Sykes Gallery on February 21 and runs through March 22.
According to writer and translator David Bellos, “Translation is another name for the human condition.” From the translation of one language to another to the translation of DNA into a living being, translation plays an essential and inevitable role in virtually everything we do.
“Using the term ‘translation’ in a generous and inclusive manner, Found in Translation examines our human struggle to transform human experience, perception and thought into acts and materials of communication,” explains exhibit curator Marshall Weber. “Focusing on the success of this process and on that which has been found rather than that which has been lost, Found in Translation is a celebration of some of the positive aspects of globalization.”
Curated by Weber for the Booklyn Artists Alliance, this exhibit will feature exciting multi-lingual collaborations including “The Tides Story” collaborations of Chinese artist Xu Bing, Colombian artist Eiana Perez and New Yorker Marshall Weber, which literally weaves Mandarin, Spanish and English together in books and scrolls that explore the physical and cognitive processes of reading and writing.
The exhibit is truly global with art and artists from all over the world including Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, Japan, India, Iran, Vietnam and Tibet. Artists featured in the exhibition include Ryoko Adachi, The Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP), Harriet Bart, Colette Fu, Vincent FitzGerald and Co. and Zahra Partovi, Clemens-Tobias Lange, Veronika Schäpers, Aaron Sinift and C. David Thomas.
Over the course of the exhibition Sykes Gallery will host a series of lectures and presentations exploring translation and artists books:
Tuesday, February 21, noon: Poetry in Translation: A reading of recent translations by Millersville University professors Katarzyna Jakubiak and Marco Antolin.
Wednesday, February 29, 1-3 p.m.: Introduction to Bookmaking workshop with Mimi Shapiro.
Thursday, March 22, noon: Curator’s presentation with Marshall Weber.
Sykes Gallery, located in Breidenstine Hall, hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon – 4 p.m.; and by appointment. Free tours of the exhibition may be scheduled by contacting Ty Clever, gallery director, at 717-871-2186 or Tyler.Clever@millersville.edu.
