Installation of books by banished writers is gesture of ‘beautiful activism’ in climate of ‘violent’ library closures, says artist
The closure of so many libraries in the UK over the last decade has been “violent and vile” and is “absolutely heartbreaking,” the artist Edmund de Waal said as he opened his own temporary library at the British Museum.
De Waal has created an installation titled library of exile, which contains 2,000 books by exiled writers from Ovid and Tacitus to TS Eliot and Judith Kerr.
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