This work comes is derived from a series titled “Comme il Vous Plaira” (As You Like It) where the display of the installation is ultimately up to the viewer or its future owner. Its display is in effect recyclable: you can have several artworks in one.

The point of departure for this series is about the book as a generic idea and as an archive. As a material, the booklets the artist uses and their ability to offer several visual combinations can be viewed as objects containing multiple time frames. Objects that create different temporalities the moment one begins to handle them.

These works also focus on the idea of notation and rewriting. The colors the artist uses in these series often hint back to her chosen title. Here the “Book of Sand” is visible in its execution but also in its concept as sand often links back to themes relating to the passage of time or constant transformation and organic evolutions. The confrontation between visible and legible has been a starting point of Lina Ben Rejeb’s practice.