Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is the work that gives its title to the artist's first solo exhibition at Guy Bartschi and consists of 225 pages torn from around 80 different editions of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The artist essentially applies Dr. Frankenstein's working method to the novel: just as Victor tears and sews, rearranging, piece by piece, dozens of limbs from dozens of corpses to create his Man, so the artist tears page 1 from one volume, page 2 from another, from another page 3, and so on, and then recomposes Shelley's entire novel, respecting the established order of the numbers but at the same time creating a “monster” because, obviously, the numbering of the various editions does not match and the result is an aberrant book, just like the Creature narrated in it.
The 225 original pages displayed in these nine display cases also give rise to another work of the same name, an artist's book published in 100 copies in which the pages making up the “monster novel” are sewn together in order, giving them new life as a “book,” although it is mostly unreadable.