This display focuses on bookworks by Japanese artist Yoko Terauchi (b.1954), which explore interior and exterior as a continuous plane.
The Sculpture Research Library on the first floor of Henry Moore Institute holds over 30,000 books, catalogues, journals and audio-visual materials dedicated to sculpture. Among them, artists’ books – conceived as artworks in their own right – form a distinctive and growing part of the collection, often developed through close collaboration between artists and curators.
Through her site-specific installations and bookworks, Terauchi questions fixed ways of seeing and categorising in order to show a “world without conflicting relationships” in a visual form.*
Five of her rare bookworks from our collection are presented in this display, alongside photographs of related installations (1983–2024). In these works, the book becomes an expanded sculptural form, collapsing distinctions between object, image and page. Published with Coracle Press, the influential Camberwell-based imprint founded by Simon Cutts, which worked closely with artists associated with New British Sculpture.
