©
lucy GIBSON 2002
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 pur 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 will only use the threads
themselves so that when the installation is removed no trace of its
existence will be seen.