with Ni Ni, Karen Tong, Charlotte Wesselmann, Natalie Jablonski Jablonski, Chomdoen Chongwattananukul, Carole El Danaf, Aya Asaleh, Yige Wang, Charon Hu, Sam Shapin,Leslaw Skrzypiec, Wesley Faure, Atimanyu Vashishth, Sebastian Wyatt, Syed Wajid Ali, Zeynep Berra Kirbasoglu, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Tianhao Mei
with Natalie Jablonski, Chomdoen Chongwattananukul, Carole El Danaf, Ni Ni, Gustave Rajalu, Sally Stott, Claire Potter, Atimanyu Vashishth, Sebastian Wyatt, Photios Demetriou, Theodore Spyropoulos, Pascal Babeau, Mariusz Stawiarski, Bert Walker, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Gregory Korcel, Arthur Stawiarski,
* cello – overheard in an underground car park in Gospel Oak
Full Size Drawings
Dear Ni Ni , we were really intrigued by your full size print of a wall in the AA . You claimed it was concerning an architectural element , a cornice . For LAWuN this black and white image recalls Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs 1965 ? Does it here resonate in a more complex way .. more than Word-Image -Object ,since within the canon of architectural design the scale of a drawing (map) is Important .For now ..Word-image-object-scale?If we claim an architectural plan to be a map , then we are reminded of Jorge Luis Borges’s one paragraph short story ‘On Exactitude in Science’, where he imagines a country where its maps have to be full size , at the same scale as the land itself , a scale of a mile to a mile.
However the drawing on a computer screen has no scale , it is a fluid continuously resized map In this case the real kitchen wall is compressed inside the camera then decompressed in the printer , to be reborn full size..Imagine if this picture of the kitchen wall at the size of the wall was placed back on the wall ,then it would serve no use , but imagine it means we can metaphorically repurpose the wall in another location , by relocating this image to another wall elsewhere.To be continued ..?AALAWuiN . November 2023
