Open Book Drawings (After Duchamp) (2014) is an installation of twenty-five handmade books that hang from a string suspended across the room. Attached with wooden laundry clothes pegs, the open pages show reproductions of diagrams from a geometry book. The piece is an homage to Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano, for his novel 2666 in which a student encounters an unconscious re-staging of Marcel Duchamp’s Unhappy readymade (1919).

Upon learning that his sister, Suzanne, had married the artist Jean Crotti in Paris while he was still in Argentina, Marcel Duchamp, 1887 - 1968) sent as a wedding gift the idea of the “unhappy readymade.” He instructed them to hang a geometry book outside so that its pages would be torn apart and its text would be erased by the elements. Suzanne in turn photographed the book and later created a painting in homage to this gesture that welcomed the effects of chance and life.

This piece was exhibited in the Gwangju Biennale 2014