In which the sorting of Meriç Algün Ringborg's Library of Unborrowed Books (Section III) is attempted..
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A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery.
Prior to the intervention.
A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery with a cluster of books with blue spines sorted together to the left.
Day 1. 
A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery with clusters of books with blue, white, black and red spines sorted together all across the top row (there are three rows of shelves).
Day 2.
A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery with cluster of books with blue, white, black, green, orange, yellow and red spines sorted together all across the top row (there are three rows of shelves).
Day 3.
A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery with cluster of books with blue, white, black, green, orange, yellow and red spines sorted together all across all three rows. Almost all the books look like they have been sorted by spine colour.
Day 4.
A photograph of a bookshelf in an art gallery with no apparent order to their spine colours.
Day 5.
Meriç Algün Ringborg's Library of Unborrowed Books (Section III) was installed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the 2014 Biennale of Sydney.
Sorted 2014 was a multi-day performance piece in which the artist gradually and surreptitiously attempted to re-sort the books in Library by spine colour in order of wavelength.
The work was eventually disrupted by a return to the alphanumeric sorting originally imposed.