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Guillermo Kuitca, Untitled, 1992 Acrylic on mattress with wood and bronze legs twenty beds, each 15.75x23.5x47.25in. Collection of The Modern, London |
- Maps of Presence and Absence
Static, desolate and empty place. Maps do not represent any human figures although they are part of what constitutes geography of the area.
Bed- symbol of intimacy and bodily associations of humans and streets. The actual bedsheet can render the maps and it may not be so accurate as the streets are recognized as only subjectively. The names marked on the mattress are mislocated or repeated. This suggests that "there is an inevitable sameness to our movements, or that we're fated to being dislocated from reality". Who had the authority to name them? Why are they called as what they are?
2. Nina Katchadourian
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| Mended Spiderweb #8 |
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| Mended Spiderweb #19 http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/ uninvitedcollaborations/spiderwebs.php |
Deconstruction and Reconstruction of spiderweb and a city map- web repair done by the artist with a thread, and a spider construct a new one and take off the thread overnight.The spider can visualize the section it has to repair by the artist's guideline.
Some Themes on mapping
Dangerous area (Guillerno Kuitca)
Subway/bus- naming, purpose of each stop, predestination
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