"Es Devlin unveils Library of Us, a vast, glowing amphitheater of books, sound, and movement that serves as the major centerpiece of Faena Art Miami Art Week 2025. Marking ten years of Faena Art in Miami Beach, Devlin's commission stretches across the shoreline as a kinetic, 6-meter-tall triangular bookshelf that rotates on its axis, its reflection amplified by a surrounding pool and a circular reading table that seats hundreds."
"At the center of the beach installation sits the 15-meter-long triangular bookshelf, holding 2,500 books and a continuous 10-meter LED line that streams text across its spine. The entire structure turns once every ten minutes, creating a quiet, perceptible drift that affects the people seated around it. Visitors read at a two-ring circular table, an outer circle that stays still and an inner circle that rotates with the sculpture, resulting in shifting perspectives."
Library of Us occupies Faena Beach as a rotating, illuminated amphitheater of books, sound, and movement. The kinetic triangular bookshelf stretches along the shoreline, reflects in a surrounding pool, and integrates a circular two-ring reading table that seats hundreds. The 15-meter-long shelf holds 2,500 books and a continuous 10-meter LED line that streams text across its spine, turning once every ten minutes to reconfigure readers’ perspectives and social encounters. A 250-excerpt audio score, read by Es Devlin and underscored by music, provides a polyphonic backdrop for collective reading, performances, and communal rituals through December 7, 2025.
Read at designboom | architecture & design magazine
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