Double Space
Curated by A.S. Bessa
With Art Works by L.A. Angelmaker - Devon Dikeou - Kenneth Goldsmith - Jorge Pardo - Alain Resnais - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Fred Sandback - Carolee Schneemann - Lily van der Stokker
In writing, the expression “double space” is used to define the maximum standard distance between two lines in a text. Poetically, though, the term is rich in ambiguities due to the intrinsic power of the words “double” and “space.”
The exhibition Double Space will explore the ideas related to space in text, the architectural properties of writing, and the concept of text as a construction.
The notion of an architectural approach to writing, which was arguably initiated by Stéphane Mallarmé in the nineteenth century, is at the core of Martin Heidegger’s speculations on language; it informed the concrete poetry movement of the 1950s and more recently has been the material of deconstruction itself (e.g Peter Eisenmann and Jacques Derrida’s collaboration in the Parc de la Villette, in Paris). Theorists have written about the relationship between writing and architecture, the artists featured in this exhibition put it into practice.
A brochure containing an essay by A.S. Bessa will be available free of charge.
APEX ART Curatorial Program
January 6 - February 5, 2000
