Paper and Scissors
Hila Laviv
2021
A bilingual and bi-directional artist book in an edition of 50 signed and cut copies.
Paper and Scissors is the third chapter from a handwork book for children written by my grandmother’s mother, Anna Warburg. The book was first published in Sweden in 1917, and translated into English in 1938. My grandmother Noni gave it to me, along with a handwritten travel diary that was written in 1934. I recently became their memories keeper. I want to translate and leave the source. It is difficult to read this translation but my intention is not to obscure something clear, but to clarify a little what is obscure. This is a book that can be cut out, it can have holes in it. My grandmother cuts books, if she needs to.
- Design: Hila Laviv
- Texts: Anna Warburg and Elsa Beskow, Hila Laviv
- Translation: Mirjam Pollin, Maria Christina Mills, Hila Laviv
- Copies: 50
- Pages: 30
- Type of binding: softcover
- Dimensions (cm): 14.5X20
- Printing: Home Press
- Binding: Home Press
- Type of printing: Hand-printed
- Publication: Home Press
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas, Shiraz Grinbaum
Hila Laviv (b. 1975), lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She holds a BFA from the Beit Berl College, Faculty of the Arts, and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Using archival materials and materials that characterize handicrafts, Laviv’s works deal with family mythologies and questions of reconstruction and rebuilding of disappearing worlds. She works in a number of mediums including video, collage and large-scale installations. In 2021, Laviv presented a solo exhibition at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod.
