Aotearoa New Zealand based Mickey Smith (b.1972 Minnesota, USA) is an award winning conceptual artist and photographer. For over two decades, her practice has been engaged with a longstanding inquiry into libraries, books and archives — in particular the social significance of their physical existence or disappearance.

Smith’s photography is a striking and poignant reflection of human history through her documentation of simple, provocative titles found on library shelves and most recently, second hand book stores around the world. Her work continuously explores the state of entropy within libraries, as we witness information systems shift, digitize and collections become deaccessioned.

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