An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
The aims of this semester are to become familiar with the milestone French author George Perec and to practice drawing in its many means of explorations.
I want us to consider how the spaces in which we live are arranged, and to question the notion of the wall - physical and/or invisible - and how a wall organises or disorganises a space, whether it's the walls in our bedrooms, the walls of a building such as our school,
Having in mind “An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris” and “Species of Spaces and Other Pieces” where Georges Perec unveils a different way of looking at interiors, architecture and the built environment. He opens the book with the description of the page within the book itself and then proceeds to the description of the bedroom: the bed, the apartment, the staircase, the apartment building, and gradually widens the circle of the story to finally reach the world.
Through drawing, we question
what distances us
what brings us together
what binds us together
what separates us.
This exploration of the theme will begin with observational drawing outdoors.
3 territorial explorations/ starting points and then will develop into a series of drawings.