palomar translations

(Oct 05) Typewritten text on paper.

The same passage from Italo Calvino's Palomar was translated from Italian to English every day for ten days.

Displayed as ten texts without their Italian antecedent, the translations float between autonomy and invalidity. The piece explores the impossibility of any single, definitive reading, as each translation differs from the next.

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