Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind at the New York Public Library displayed the library’s vast collection of Woolf’s writings, personal notebooks, family photos, and unpublished letters. Woolf’s creative life was boundary-pushing, experimental and modern. The exhibition reflected this modernity while still visually referencing the historic gallery, similar to Woolf’s reference and response to historic literature in her writing.
I served as Architectural Exhibition Designer for this project at Pure+Applied.
Cases displayed Woolf’s letters, inspirations, and writings and were interspersed with large photos and quotes on backlit semi-translucent fabric.
The central case focused on Woolf’s work at the Hogarth Press, a publishing house established by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf. The case shape references a printer’s composing stick.
