CONTOURS OF SITE

Darri Lorenzen

September 22, 2007 – November 11, 2007
Opening: September 22, 2007

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After you wander through the trees and reach the point of being lost you will find the woods.

The woods occupy an interminable area in the popular imagination and play host to unspeakable legends. When the Etruscans entered Tuscany, finding the woods would have been effortless. But now, fences and agricultural terraces trace the borders and elevation zones usually reserved for maps. In the night, constellations of domestic lights mark settlements on hills that were once unknown.

One way of being lost involves no orientation.
One way of being lost involves the poetics of orientation.

Perhaps there has never been no orientation- a site without a subject. All our points of reference compose the geometry of obsolete maps and within those points of reference we can find ourselves lost.

The exhibition, CONTOURS OF SITE, was initiated by Darri Lorenzen after a series of conversations about the intersections of his practice and the opening of Project Gentili. The components of the related publication are a loose topography of the exhibition’s interests and points for new orientations.

Related publication: CONTOURS OF SITE