Inside a Book was an exhibition of my etchings and fossil books at the Institute Gallery at the State Library of SA in April 2025. My book Under The Bed / Inventories 2020-2022 was launched in the exhibition by Melinda Rankin, Director of Fabrik, Lobethal.
The connection with the State Library relates to questions of what we do with the past, how do we store it, how do we interpret it, how do we retrieve it. Who are we keeping it for? What can we do with it now?
How can we learn from the past and carry it into the future? How do we come to terms with what we leave behind?
I reminded everyone of how this space was the first location of the Art Gallery and Museum of South Australia. Also about Groucho Marx’s joke about it being too dark to read inside a dog.
Stephanie Radok 