보이지 않는 도시들
Invisible Cities
Laser-Printed, 2019
'보이는' 것은 무엇일까?
반대로 '보는' 것은 무엇일까?
우리는 눈 앞에 보이고 만질 수 있으며 들을 수 있는 것에 대하여 잘 알고 있다고 생각한다.
그러나 정작 보이는 것을 조정하는 것은 보이지 않는 것일수도 있다.
작업의 재료로 이탈리 칼비노의 <보이지 않는 도시들>을 활용해 55개의 도시 중
선택한 도시에 대한 이야기에 걸맞는 방법과 시점에 입각해 결과물을 제작한다.
What is 'visible'?
What, on the contrary, is 'seeing'?
I think we are familiar with what we can see, touch and hear.
But adjusting what you see may be invisible.
We're using Italian Calvino's <Invisible Cities> as a source of work, and we're looking at 55 cities.
Produce the results based on the method and viewpoint to fit the story of the selected city.
What, on the contrary, is 'seeing'?
I think we are familiar with what we can see, touch and hear.
But adjusting what you see may be invisible.
We're using Italian Calvino's <Invisible Cities> as a source of work, and we're looking at 55 cities.
Produce the results based on the method and viewpoint to fit the story of the selected city.
In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave. the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.
From a mountainside, camping with their house- hold goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing.
They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a simi- lar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take them- selves and their houses still farther away.
Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spider- webs of intricate relationships seeking a form.
