SPECIES OF SPACES 1974 - AN ACCOMMODATION OF RETAINED AND FORGOTTEN LOCATIONS

The project started as a reading circle where the artists Kristina Bength and Cecilia Darle, invited artists for a close reading of the literature by Georges Perec and in particular the novel Species of Spaces from 1974. The group's point of departure is the writings of Perec, in which limitations and rules become a working method, hinting at an autobiographical latency. Filtered through memory's associative thought processes, they describe spaces that are both fictitious and mythical and very real, in which the past is mirrored in the present, and vice versa. Exhibition: Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden (29.09.-20.10.2016).