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Pernick does not present these objects in their familiar, ultimate mode. The plates and papers are presented after they underwent a series of manipulations: he burns them, wrinkles them and drowns them until their original nature is completely lost. He sculpts in them and treads them almost as if he was trying to reinvent them, until they are in fact separated from the practical function they originally had, leading to their transition into useless objects whose entire purpose lies in their own being. Turning these objects in to a sort of purposiveness without a purpose resonates with the …