Youdhisthir Maharjan, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Acrylic on hand-cut reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 61 x 49.5 cm, 43.2 x 38.1 cm, 33 x 38.1 cm, 2022
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Off the Page, Hand woven strips of reclaimed, deacidified book pages , 21.6 x 81.3 cm, 2023
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Questions of Time, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 50.8 x 50.8 cm, 2022
Youdhisthir Maharjan, The End of the Beginning, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 38.7 x 34.9 cm, 2022
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Under a Silent Moon, Watercolor and hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 60.3 x 26 cm, 2023
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Life After Life, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 20.6 x 77.5 cm, 2022
Youdhisthir Maharjan, The Time in Between, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages , 37.5 x 86.4 cm, 2022
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Dictionary of Lost Words, Hand woven strips of reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 22.9 x 12.7 cm (5 pages), 2023
Youdhisthir Maharjan, Between the Lines,, Hand-embroidered book strips on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 22.9 x 30.5 cm, 2022
“I only work with the books I find at thrift stores, so my works and subjects are dictated by titles of the books people have discarded. For the Art Dubai show, I intend to explore time and silence, working with books, like, The Time in Between, Questions of Time, The End of the Beginning, Life After Life, Dictionary of Lost Words, The Silence Between Breaths, A Book of Silence, Under a Silent Moon, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and more, as I continue to scan thrift stores in different cities. I have worked with these books not to understand and define time or silence, but to experience them through my futile and absurd attempt of documenting time by repeatedly cutting and gluing one alphabet at a time. What remains in place of meaningful and orderly arrangements of text are hollow and vacant memories of the familiar. These spaces of silence—the unsaid—unveil rarely explored evocative quality of absence. Silence, then, becomes powerful voice of its own that offers an opportunity to experience the world without inadequacies of language, and in the process, uncover beauty and truth previously obscured by words.”
- Youdhisthir Maharjan
Youdhisthir Maharjan, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Acrylic on hand-cut reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 61 x 49.5 cm, 43.2 x 38.1 cm, 33 x 38.1 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Off the Page, Hand woven strips of reclaimed, deacidified book pages , 21.6 x 81.3 cm, 2023
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Questions of Time, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 50.8 x 50.8 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, The End of the Beginning, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 38.7 x 34.9 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Under a Silent Moon, Watercolor and hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 60.3 x 26 cm, 2023
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Life After Life, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 20.6 x 77.5 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, The Time in Between, Hand-cut text collage on reclaimed, deacidified book pages , 37.5 x 86.4 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Dictionary of Lost Words, Hand woven strips of reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 22.9 x 12.7 cm (5 pages), 2023
Art Dubai 2023
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Youdhisthir Maharjan, Between the Lines,, Hand-embroidered book strips on reclaimed, deacidified book pages, 22.9 x 30.5 cm, 2022
Art Dubai 2023
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