During my residency at the Centre des livres d’artiste I would like to explore the idea of absence within the library. I am interested in what is missing: empty shelves, lost or damaged books, erasures, redacted pages, uncatalogued archives and missing volumes. Through material, textual, and spatial approaches, I hope to trace how a library not only holds what is preserved, but also what has been erased, excluded, forgotten, or never written. The residency would become a site to investigate these absences as forms of knowledge in themselves, revealing the unseen structures that shape collections, memory, and access.

Rahel Zoller is a London based artist and educator. Her work questions the concept of what a book is by subverting, embracing, and interrogating the form and materiality of the book itself. Whilst also considering the interaction between user, creator and society. Since October 2015, Rahel has been a member of ABC (Artists’ Books Cooperative).