aMAZEme - Artists create giant book maze from Oxfam’s donated books - timelapse video

A vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, entitled aMAZEme, has been installed on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall, London between 31 July - 25 August, as part of Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World. Visitors will be able to navigate the maze, which has been constructed from 250,000 remaindered, second hand and new books. 150,000 of these books have been loaned by Oxfam, which will be returned to the charity’s shop network at the end of the project. The remaining 100,000 books have been gifted by publishing houses from around the UK. When the maze is deconstructed at the end of the exhibition, all of the books will be donated to Oxfam to raise funds for their work fighting poverty around the world. The project has been created by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company HungryMan. Inspired by the writer and educator JL Borges, the maze forms the shape of Borges’ unique fingerprint, covering over 500 square metres, with sections standing up to 2.5 metres high. Watch this video to see how the maze was constructed! Credit: Marcos Saboya / Gualter Pupo / Hungryman Projects 2012