Bride Machine

Christine Walde’s Bride Machine is a limited edition artist multiple composed of 14 folios of poetry with original artwork in a custom-made clamshell box, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, also known as the Large Glass. Composed of single broadsides, transparencies, chapbooks, and other printed works, each folio in Bride Machine is both a disruption and meditation on the act of reading, challenging readers’ assumptions about the codex and the ephemeral nature of the archive through the counter-narrative of its hinged, folded, coiled, bound and stapled elements. Part amuse-bouches, part observation, Bride Machine is also a rigorous interrogation of desire, the fourth dimension, conceptual poetics, and the emancipation of Duchamp’s Bride from her apotheosis of virginity.

Christine Walde is an artist, poet and academic librarian whose practice combines library and archival research with interests in artists’ books and multiples, experimental poetry, prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance, book arts and the visual arts. Her work has been published in print and online journals in Canada, the US, the UK, and Germany and she has exhibited both locally and internationally. Walde lives and works on the traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples in the Cascadia bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.