Language, Decipherment, and Translation - an upcoming exhibition at the Grolier Club

I am so thrilled that my personal collection of books and prints will be on view in a members exhibition to be held at the Grolier Club in 2024! I have been collecting books, prints and related materials for many moons as inspired by many influences including the worlds of Ancient Egypt, Walt Whitman and contemporary art. Now I am trying to weave my collection together into a comprehensible presentation!

"Language, Decipherment, and Translation – from Then to Now" February 29 - May 11, 2024

 Language, Decipherment, and Translation celebrates the role of books, and related objects, in transferring information and knowledge through time. Inspired by the recent 200th anniversary of the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone (1822), the exhibition is curated by Grolier Club member Deirdre Lawrence and features work from her personal collection of approximately 2,000 books and prints. More than 50 books, collages, prints, and scrolls on view focus on communication through a variety of languages—some recognized and some invented—ranging from hieroglyphs to translations of classic folktales such as The Thousand and One Nights and other forms of storytelling. Highlights include early attempts at decipherment of hieroglyphs including Hieroglyphica (1594) by Pierio Valerianus and the Mensa Isiaca (1670) by Lorenzo Pignoria, as well as contemporary works such as Marginalia 1 (2013) by Islam Aly, A Universal Lexicon (2018) by Sarah Hulsey, and Codex Seraphinianus (2020) by Luigi Serafini.

*Photo of Card from the Brooklyn Museum Catalog representing an item in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology, c. 1917. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives

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