July 12, 2019 - May 31, 2020
eslite bookstore
Dunnan store
Taipei (Taiwan)
“Forest of Numbers | 1989-2020”
Special installation for the Taiwan’s landmark bookstore chain eslite.
Located in its first store - the iconic Dunnan store - opened in 1989 as the world first 24-hour bookstore, the installation expresses its 30 years history from 1989 until its upcoming closing in May 2020.
About “Forest of Numbers”
As part of “100 colors” series, Emmanuelle unveiled in 2017 the installation "Forest of Numbers", created for the 10th Anniversary of The National Art Center, Tokyo. The installation visualized the decade of the future from 2017 to 2026, each layer employing 4 digits to express the relevant year such as 2, 0, 1, and 7 for 2017. More than 60,000 pieces of suspended numeral figures from 0 to 9 were regularly aligned in three dimensional grids. A section was removed, created a path that cut through the installation, invited visitors to wonder inside the colorful forest filled with numbers.
Since 2017, "Forest of Numbers" has been explored in various forms, sizes of numbers, meaning of numbers, depending on the environment and exhibition space.