 brings together a series of works that consider the linear mapping of space: internal, perceptual and architectural. The exhibition takes its title from the coordination of mind and body in the everyday act of walking. The first work we encounter, 

 (2016), acts as a diagnostic tool against which the viewer is invited to measure him/herself. It is paired with the lead work, 

 (1985): an early attempt at mapping the surface of the body using the co-ordinates of a geographer’s division of the surface of the Earth.

Throughout the show, the mapping of body and space interrogates both architecture and our own moving state. The exhibition’s principle work, 

 (2017), foregrounds the co-ordination of all perceptions in the negotiation of an environment. The installation uses 21 kilometres of silk-wrapped bungee to make an interactive zone, inviting physical exploration and allowing the viewer to become the viewed. In negotiating 

’s forest of 5,000 vertical, taut silk lines, the viewer’s field of vision becomes confused. Their passage has to adapt into a willed movement through a space that both resists but also remembers the trajectory of the journey: a trace of vibrations lasting many minutes after that journey has ended. The varied thickness of the bungees confuse the distinctions between foreground, midground and distance, producing an optical field that, like 

 (2014), is impossible to bring into focus. This gives rise to feelings of dislocation and vertigo in the viewer.

Galleria Continua

, 2017, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, one horizontal and one vertical dissecting line, dimensions variable. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2016, 10 mm mild steel plate and 10 mm square section mild steel bar, 193.1 × 50.4 × 33.3 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 1986-87, lead, fibreglass, plaster and air, 193 × 50 × 38 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2016, 10 mm square section mild steel bar, 192.3 × 50.3 × 30.7 cm, edition of 5 plus 1 AP. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 1986-87, lead, fibreglass, plaster and air, 193 × 50 × 38 cm and 

, 2014, carbon and casein on paper, 28 × 38 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2014, carbon and casein on paper, 28 × 38 cm and 

, 2017, 4 mm square section stainless steel bar, 161.7 × 69.5 × 82.5 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2009, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 222 × 167 × 185 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2017, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192.8 × 47.2 × 35.8 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2017, 16 mm square section mild steel bar, 166.4 × 49.8 × 48.2 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2017, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 119 × 48 × 107 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2012, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 25 × 57 × 222 cm and 

, 2011/17, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 38.5 × 94 × 70 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2012, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 25 × 57 × 222 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2012/17, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 176 × 47 × 63.5 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

Installation view. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2012/17, 6 mm square section mild steel bar, 176 × 47 × 63.5 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.


, 2017, 6 mm, 8 mm and 10 mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord and steel fixings, dimensions variable. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

, 2015, 5 mm mild steel plate and 5 mm square section mild steel bar, 185.1 × 51.7 × 34.4 cm. Photograph by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio.

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