Katherine L. Lannin
Toronto, Ontario
The House of Leaves, (a title partly inspired by the fictional book under the same name written by
author, Mark Z. Danielewski) is an installation made of thousands of pages from books torn from their
binding and fixed to the outer walls of two buildings located at Ryerson University Campus (sandwiched
between the Student Campus Centre and O’Keefe House).
Lannin transforms this walkway asking us to reinterpret how we think about public space. The pages
completely consume the space transforming it into an ethereal cave like structure.
Passing through the installed work pedestrian traffic stirs and ruffles the pages; an effect that
imbues the space with the sense that it is a living organism, a fiction itself, created by other fictions.
Katherine L. Lannin, House of Leaves, 2008, Mixed Media
photography: Natalie Logan
House of Leaves, 2008
Installation
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
A15 Ryerson University Student Centre, 55 Gould Street
(between the Student Campus Centre & O'Keefe House)
Thank you to:
Vladimir Spicanovic and Kelly Lannin for their continued support.
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