This research focuses on the position occupied by the book in a specific segment of contemporary art, with the expectation of perhaps encountering it as a living, unfinished organism, not restricted to its usual representations - in a field that often seeks to deconstruct social representations by challenging them with impermanence. In our proposition, we see the book presenting itself as a thing, a material element resting somewhere beyond social and literary signs, building conceptual barriers. Starting from the distinction between object and thing, this dissertation suggests that even in contemporaneity there is a possible relationship among materials, experience and non-automatism, despite the fact that we are permanently surrounded by a very broad, omnipresent universe of signs. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on non-naturalized performances of the book, where meanings are transient and fluctuating - never permanent, never before - being in constant motion at every interaction - a singular, dialectic relationship between people and things, which, according to the authors analyzed, would construct both simultaneously. Seeking to experience the strangeness of the contact with objects that do not accept definitions - from the perspective of things -, this dissertation brings together propositions of artists who made use of the book as a material and instrument of art. Art movements seeking liberation from classical patterns serve as the basis for the construction of the Book-Thing category, when it is suggested that the book be experienced before words and representations. This category then becomes materialized in an artistic installation. The theoretical foundation of the dissertation lies in Material Culture Studies, based on exponents such as Daniel Miller and Tim Ingold dialoguing with the assumptions of Heidegger, Didi-Huberman and other authors; starting from this theoretical framework, it seeks to reflect on the contemporary relationship between people and things, in an innovative approach to the object.