December 2006 - research project
Tracing Space, Centre for Drawing Project Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London

(extract from proposal)
“Artists – painters, sculptors or architects – do not show space, they create it” (Paul Klee, from Lefebvre, The Production of Space). In this research into creating a two-dimensional work that will be a blending of the surrounding three-dimensional space, I believe in the need for an active encounter with architecture. I find it very restrictive to use collected/found images or photographic documentation to create new work, because you tend to lose the direct impact of an experience that is the basis of your inspiration. It also means less opportunity to question the theme, because you focus on the visual aspects rather than the theoretical.
Instead of recreating architectural structures and making the viewer experience a real but artificial space (for example the work of Monika Sosnowska and Gregor Schneider), I would like to explore the possibility of a production of space on the flat plane, similar to the way it is produced in the city between the citizen and the architecture. With this I mean creating an ‘active’ image – an image that is not static in itself, but implies the everyday use and experience of architecture.