Captive to the Book

The installation Broken Trajectory captures the moment when a prescribed direction is lost. An aluminium frame projecting from the surface of the image establishes a clear, almost architectural trajectory — an expectation of a jump, an exit, a continuation. The book, however, as the physical carrier of the text, does not follow this vector. It is displaced and suspended in space, deviating from the proposed logic. This gesture does not illustrate flight nor complete a transition. Instead, it marks a rupture: the text, having left the image, no longer obeys composition or authorial intention. Publication is presented not as a culmination, but as a moment of lost control — when the produced object exits the frame yet fails to find a stable trajectory in reality. Broken Trajectory extends the investigation initiated in the series Journey of the Manuscript, in which the manuscript, the book, and the text are approached as forms possessing their own corporeality and destiny, independent of the author’s will.