The Anatomy of Place (2010)
The Anatomy of Place (Lightbox image)
During my one year residency at the Florence Trust I have been working on a site-specific piece about the Trust, the church it’s located in (St. Saviour’s in Aberdeen Park, Highbury in London) and about the founder, Patrick Hamilton, who had a studio in Florence for many years, where artists met, classes were held and exchange between artists took place.
“The Investigation of a specific site is a matter of extracting concepts out of existing sense – data through direct perception… one does not impose, but rather expose the site… the unknown areas of sites can best be explored by artists.”
Robert Smithson from Miwon Kwon: One Place After Another – Site Specific Art
It is an attempt to describe this particular place, the fabric of the building, its history and the people who shaped it, through a multi-disciplinary approach. My practice is concerned with the layers of histories, anecdotes, memory and its creation. The final work will be presented in an installation of several elements. Each element retains its own function, while all elements come together in an attempt to create an open-ended story or narrative, partly real and partly fictional. It is for the viewer to decide which associations this may bring up: perhaps questioning the fabrication of place, memory, roots or journeys.
“The Idea itself, even if not made visible, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps – scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations – are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product.”
Sol LeWitt (1967), Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Art Forum 5
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