The Brugge Archive — Winter Collection
All translation by Lieve Van Cauwenberge.
Object Reader, Cultuurcentrum Brugge, CC De Moelie, Linkebeek, CC De Ster, CC Willebroek, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen - Belgium, 1998/9.
Featured artists include: Choreh Feyzdjiou, Claudia Fontes, Beatrijs Lauwaert, Anne van der Pals, Monica de Miguel Rubio, Uta Scharf, Didier Ve, Sonja Zelic.
Second hand garments bought from the flea market in Brugge were the basis for the work. 'Maps' were produced directly from the clothes by making graphite rubbings which produced an x-ray type image of the garment. Parts of the drawings were enlarged by 200 - 400% and printed using the dyeline process. This being an early method of reproducing drawings originally used by architects and planners giving detailed instructions for the way something should be made, but here the directions are unclear.
The resulting large prints allude to geographies rather than structures and are fan-folded to A4 like maps or plans, the folds creating a surface grid. The folded maps allow the viewer a more intimate relation with these large pieces - sections can be looked at easily but it is difficult to see the image as a whole, and rather than extending the known space of the garment / body they imply unknown and possibly unknowable space. The blue dyeline image is unstable, it is affected by light and will gradually fade and yellow if continually exposed, so these maps have to be protected from the intrusion of light like the fragile ephemera of a museum archive.
