Visually, this is an impressive piece of art installation, walking on the strip between these two stacks of books.
The intention of the artwork is apparently:
“The project ‘Passage’ represents a kind of symbolic “shortcut across worlds” in which we exist or reside: from the factual, real world to the world of human culture, where reality is replaced by another reality – the virtual one – the reality of words, text, signs, symbols, and images, and then back again.”
I view this differently. It’s made of books which have been discarded from libraries, but what this installation suggests to me is that people of privilege want to restrict books from those without wealth. This is not a cheap museum to enter, albeit I used the Bratislava Card, and to me it mocks people by hoarding books in a heap to show that they can’t be read by the poor. I’m not sure that the artist intended to give the impression of a wealthy elite separating themselves from the poorest in society, but that’s what I got from all of this. The artist talked of a pilgrimage, but even those are perhaps limited to those with the most resources. Perhaps there might be a revolution where the artwork is disassembled and the books are given away to people who want them.