Sadie Plant: Comment lire a bookshelf in einem Buch the secret place

What if the titles on a bookshelf were not just labels, but lines of a poem?
In Comment lire a bookshelf in einem Buch, Sadie Plant transforms a former telephone box on a railway platform in Biel/Bienne into a luminous cabinet of words. Books—found, donated, abandoned—are arranged not to be read in sequence, but to be read at a glance, their spines forming 20 short poems.

Photographs of these stacks are paired with Plant’s own text, reflecting on the work’s origins and the everyday poetry hiding in plain sight. What began as an installation about lost and found books becomes a new book in its own right—a layered meditation on reading, language, and chance encounters.