Books swell and burst from Alicia Martin’s Biografias, a Madrid art installation composed of approximately 5,000 books. Fixed to mesh tubing, waterfalls of books spill into the street and assume an imposing and expressive form. As pages shuffle and flip in the wind, Martin’s books seem to bring to life the energy hidden between their bindings. In an era of electronics and clipped communication, Biografias serves as a delightful and humbling meditation on the book as an object and the power of a narrative conveyed.

- Maggie