Molly Springfield makes drawings and installations based on texts, especially those that recall specific and transformative moments in the history of images and ideas—such as the birth of photography in the 1830’s or the emergence of conceptual art strategies in the late 1960’s. Among other things, her work addresses oppositions between reproduction and originality, seeing and reading, technology and labor, and digital and analog.
Molly's current projects include an ongoing series of drawings of photocopies of printed texts; a mixed-media project based on the life and writings of the 19th-century photography visionary William Henry Fox Talbot; an investigation into how handwritten marginalia reveals relationships between readers and books; and a visual "translation" of the first chapter of Swann's Way in the form of drawings made from every existing English edition of Proust's novel.
Molly's current projects include an ongoing series of drawings of photocopies of printed texts; a mixed-media project based on the life and writings of the 19th-century photography visionary William Henry Fox Talbot; an investigation into how handwritten marginalia reveals relationships between readers and books; and a visual "translation" of the first chapter of Swann's Way in the form of drawings made from every existing English edition of Proust's novel.
