'BEAUTY UNREALIZED: spider webs of personal universes seeking a form' 

(14 December 2006 - 8 April 2007) 


Public Space With A Roof would like to thank to all the artists, participants and the public that 
supported our project Beauty Unrealized since December 2006. We would also like to inform you that the 
library of intimate universes seeking a form will stay on display until the end of June 2007 and will 
be open Thursday to Sunday from 3-7 pm or by appointment. For more details on the project and the past 
events please see our website www.pswar.org.

PSWAR library was created as a framework for the whole project and in which visitors can enter and get 
lost in the world of thoughts, ideas, questions, possibilities, and puzzles. We invited numerous 
individuals (artists, filmmakers, writers, theoreticians, etc.) to submit items that have significantly 
influenced them and their work. The 'library' offers a space for the visitors to freely engage with the 
collection of objects and spend time in reading, watching the videos/films or listening to the music

Inspired by Aby Warburg, this library is "a collection of questions" rather than "a repository of books, 
(...) involving not objects but the tension, analogies, contrasts, or contradictions among them". Its 
inside was used to host six separate exhibitions where invited artists presented their past works, works 
in progress, or works produced especially for this project.

Like the majority of the PSWAR projects, Beauty Unrealized combined an exhibition with an accompanying 
series of talks, lectures, public debates, and a reader. This is the fourth and final project of the 
second phase of the work of PSWAR, the result of questions and problems that have arisen from the 
previous projects. We regard it as a closing of an imaginary circle, which is why we have invited 
all the artists who participated in the history of PSWAR to be a part of its closure.

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PSWAR Library is open Thursday to Sunday 3-7 pm or by appointment until 30 June 2007   
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Location: Public Space With a Roof, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW Amsterdam.
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The project is kindly supported by: 'Cine Qua Non' film shop, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, VSB Fonds
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For further questions please email to pswar@xs4all.nl or consult our website http://www.pswar.org