@ MANSIONS

lucy GIBSON

17th - 18th April 2002

Charing X


© lucy GIBSON 2002

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

Taking a regular journey can send us into a confident lull. Have you ever repeated a journey for the xth time
and got there only to find yourself baffled by your arrival, having no memory of the journey or which route
you took?


The spaces in which we move can be so familiar that our perception of our bodies size and movement within
it are reduced. Signage systems in the city strive to achieve such obedience as produced in the regular journey.
At Charing Cross both pedestrians and motorists are faced with a bombardment of instructions, traffic lights,
road markings, bollards, sign posts. Despite the complex nature of these city appendages we instantly know
what we are supposed to do, where we are being told to go and when to do it.


My installations take the colours of the city’s guidance systems and weave together spaces, impeding your
movement through them, heightening awareness of your body. Strongly based on a visual aesthetic as well as
concept, I wish to engage the audience and encourage them to explore the work. The work addresses the
physicality of the space and the body’s relationship to its scale and geography.

The construction is a web like weaving of yarns and threads, using the columns and in situ elements of the
space. I only used the threads themselves so that now the installation is removed there is no trace of its
existence.


This page is a replica of the original archive of this installation which was a part of 'Public/Private' a month
long series of art installations and interactions in the disused coffee shop, Mansions, at the Charing Cross
interchange in Glasgow, presented by E merge D.
Click here for more information on Public/Private and E merge D


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