Originally conceived for the exhibition dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Germany, artist Judith Barry’s project For when all that was read… so as not to be unknown functions as an exploded guidebook that radically reconfigures objects and ideas from the show into a carefully-constructed three-dimensional work. Due to constraints from a handful of artists’ estates, certain works from the exhibition were barred from reproduction in Barry’s piece. This paradoxical situation—an artist’s guidebook without permission to display its featured artworks—led to the reinterpretation of the entire body of images by graphic means. The resulting work thus exists in two versions: on the one hand, there is the official, exhibited piece. Adjacent to it, the absent precursor: a shadow work that eludes commerce and distribution yet is itself the genesis of the project.