Minimal Narratives
Portobello Square
Zine 1
Natalia Panis
Self-Published
English
Softcover
Edition 32/50
97 x 107 mm
2022
There are many ways of exploring perception and imagination in the context of everyday life within public space. Experience is one of them. It is a way of constructing reality by combining thinking processes and feelings. Through experimentation, people are able to recognize spatial dimensions and, therefore, acknowledge space. A simple stretch can lead to spatial awareness, and moving from one place to another gives us a sense of direction. For childr en, on the other hand, space is not so much defined by its extension or location, but is more like an object—something they interact with in relation to their own scale. Children experience space as much as adults do, but in a more polarized way: near or far. What lies in between is less important. The existence of space lasts only as long as they pay attention to it. Their interaction with and imagination of space are directly related to their activity.
Reflections based on Yi-Fu Tuan: Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
(Source: back blurb)
About the Artist
A short passage. A small fragment of one’s life. A few seconds on their way to meet someone. Strangers crossing the same path on a daily basis. All these non-written minimal narratives, ordinary aspects of the quotidian, it all becomes a patchwork representation of a public space. Constantly being made, being fabricated. Looking at Dublin’s Portobello Square through her window, Natalia became a narrator, weaving illustrations, photographs and writing to understand how people perceive and experience space. Everyday life is not a mere reproduction of objective rules from spatial conditions, but is filled with subjectivity and controversies. Using storytelling strategies, the works in this exhibition are composed of illustrations, photographs and both two-dimensional and three-dimensional threads to follow, where minimal narratives fill gaps between the geography of space and imagination.
(Source: https://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-projects/lab-gallery/a-perambulation)
