Hut
(Lying for Blanchot)
28x22x28cm Edition 1 + 1 AP, 2006
Private Collection
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Hut
(Standing for Perec)
28x22x28cm Edition 1 + 1 AP, 2006
Private Collection |
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Installation images from exhibition, Décors du Silence!, 2006, Ubu Gallery, Glasgow
LINK TO WOODWORKS SECTION
These Hut works were the first in a series of acacia wood objects, the (fictional) blueprint for which was devised from literary sources. The novella, As I Lay Dying (1930), by the American writer Willian Faulkner was the key literary source for these works. The backplate of the boxes is the paper size American Letter.
The boxes are made of acacia wood, which is amongst the hardest of hard woods. In lump form it sinks in water. It is imagined as the 'wood' equivalent to lead. The objects are to be understood as hovering uncertainly between being domestic objects and architectural models of some kind. They are fictions with a contrete apppearance.
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