Date/Time: Monday 15th October (launch at 3pm) until Friday 26th October

Venue: Atrium and Long Gallery spaces of the King Edward VII Building

Renewal is an essay of creative writing and photography. It is the result of a process of restoration in a dictionary that had 65 pages missing. The open wound has devastated the meaning of hundreds of words, such as “renewal”. As imagined, the volume presents a production defect. The Spanish collective NOPHOTO http://nophoto.org/ aims to restore the mutilated dictionary. This seemingly fantastic but real occurrence encourages us to imagine a world without words such as “remuneration”, “reportage”, “representation”, “recovery”. The objective is to create an inventory of lost words as survival strategy for words threatened with extinction such as “renewal”.