Pencil Region
파블로 카스트로, 오브라 아키텍츠
Pablo Castro, OBRA ARCHITECTS
라틴 문자
합판
1200×2400×800mm
파블로 카스트로, 오브라 아키텍츠
Pablo Castro, OBRA ARCHITECTS
라틴 문자
합판
1200×2400×800mm
Language is used to give information, and (perhaps more) to conceal it, for both devious and humanitarian reasons. Some of the most beautiful pages that have been written can leave us in doubt of what is being said: is it what we think or the opposite? For our project we consider one such case of the use of language and script not to say by not saying, but the opposite, not to say by saying. The Swiss author Robert Walser, a forgotten writer rediscovered and championed towards the end of the XX century, used what he called the ‘Pencil Zone System’ (or ‘microscripts’) to both reveal and conceal in his largely autobiographical and heartbreaking works, made of the scenes from a life that plays out as a catastrophe in slow motion. For our work the text proposed (fragments about Walser’s life and work from the pen of W.G. Sebald) are cut onto a table allowing the sunlight to write them on the ground. The table itself, as in the case of Walser, has collapsed under the weight of a life of unfulfilled potential, since a lot of things can happen on a table besides writing: one can cook, eat, make love, give birth, or in the case of a table in the morgue, lay out a corpse for an autopsy.