Heterotopia Practice

Heterotopia Practice (2014) was developed during a two-week artist residency at the villa and sculpture park of art collector Egidio Marzona in Verzegnis, Italy. The project grew from observations and sketches made during the residency while engaging with the site’s collection of Minimalist and Land Art, including works by Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, and Carl Andre.

My drawings focus on Lawrence Weiner’s TAKEN TO SOME LIMIT (1988), a circular concrete work installed at the entrance to the sculpture park as a helicopter landing pad. The drawings reimagine the work as having an imaginary volume beneath the ground, transforming its flat surface into a series of subterranean forms. By extending the sculpture beyond what is visible, the drawings interpret Weiner’s idea of a “limit” as a threshold between surface and depth, physical presence and imaginative projection.

Heterotopia Practice was exhibited in Minimalism As A Crime Scene, an exhibition curated by Dominik Lejman at Wielka Gallery, Zamek Culture Center, Poznań, Poland, from March 22 to April 19, 2014.