Other Spaces
24 August - 8 September 2018
Newcastle University UK

Other Spaces explores the window as both a looking and a reflective mechanism, referencing the filmic process and Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Large Glass’. The ‘L’ shaped arrangements of transparent reflective screens were influenced by contemporary architecture - particularly designs by Junya Ishigami - where light, transparence and reflection heighten awareness of movement through space.

“Other Spaces grew from researching our understanding of our movement, light and space. Exploring this active dynamic of wayfinding continues to define my practice. Initially this research began when I noticed a vast complexity of movements through the train window as I travelled on my daily journeys. I started making small notebook sketches and then studio experiments leading to this larger scale immersive installation.”

Castors added to the ‘L’ shaped screens, enabled artist experimentation with their positioning during development of the artwork - washi tape drawing on the floor traces this process of experimentation.

Washi is hand-made in Japan from the wood pulp of Mulberry trees, extending this trace of hand beyond the artist’s. Drawn washi tape within Other Spaces, has been torn rather than cut, to amplify this trace of hand while creating a sense of being ‘on the move’.

Through the layering of light charged transparence on architectural space, the washi drawings of movement relay a fluctuating luminescence of monochromes, form and shadow. Physical and perceptual, real and reflected, near on far blending together.