Jane’s

This artwork featured in Never Judge a Book (2016). 

This film brings together two important strands of Banner’s works: her enquiries into the nature of books and publishing and her fascination with planes and aerial warfare. Fred T. Jane founded the annual series All the World’s Aircraft in 1909 when flying machines, which had seemed so far-fetched, were beginning to move from fantasy to reality. The film Jane’s documents multiple unsuccessful attempts to stack and make a single 4m high column of the artist’s complete collection of the yearly manuals, suggesting a parody of sculpture making.

Image: Fiona Banner, Jane’s, High definition digital film projection, duration: 11.42 minutes. Image courtesy of the artist. 

 

About the artist

Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner exhibited in Building Site, Hardwick Hall, 2014, commissioned in part by Meadow Arts, and Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016.

Image: Fiona Banner, Work III, 2014. Glass. Commissioned in part by Meadow Arts. Courtesy Frith Street Gallery.