This work was first shown at The Showroom in London in 1996 as part of an exhibition curated by Amikam Toren, entitled The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life.

First exhibited in 1996 as The Revelation, this work was presented under a new title for the 2013 group exhibition Film in Space at Camden Arts Centre. Curated by artist-filmmaker Guy Sherwin, the exhibition explored the legacy of expanded cinema—a movement traditionally associated with experimental projection and the London Film-Makers’ Co-op, of which Denise was a member during the 1980s and 1990s.

Sherwin selected the piece to broaden the conversation around the cinematic, moving beyond the projected image to examine the materiality of film itself. By using acetate—the historic base of analogue film—for the book’s pages, the work treats the physical medium as a sculptural object.

Resting on a bespoke acrylic lectern and illuminated by a spotlight activated by the presence of a viewer, the individual transparent pages create a glowing “liquid mirror” (Reardon) when viewed en masse. In this context, the book becomes a performative site where light, material, and the presence of the viewer converge, extending the cinematic experience into the physical space of the gallery.