Max Kessel
The Netherlands
Thesis:Max-Kessel_thesis_Max Kessel
Reflex tests
Historical architectural drawings of structures in the surroundings of the exhibition location, and thresholded photographs of various derelict spaces, started a process of tracing, writing and drawing, eventually materializing in a spatial environment. And resulting in a writing or drawing that is not to be interpreted as solely one form of writing or drawing. The works form an interplay between writing and drawing, fictional site-inspired constructions and collaged found signs and print.
The lines that exist through various sources in a derelict space, detach itself from architectural lines in the landscape. Like reflection is seen only when seen at a certain angle, written language is not only limited to known letters and characters, even though it might seem to be. And is only taken notice of when realized that writing can transcend the conventional forms of alphabetic writing, in various ways, by in this case, not using those same symbols and letters but making writing stemming from certain architectural lines, map grids, etcetera. In spatial form, the ascemic writing brings into question the spatial side in writing, markings carved in wood, metal bent forming curved lines like writing, lines appearing and disappearing by moving through space.
