I’ve been designing a few different gallery spaces based around our studios which will become our gallery in the degree show. I’ve been struggling to decide what I want to achieve from a space and so have created a few designs. Pictured here are designs that are meant to encourage the visitor in one route around the gallery, one that encourages wandering with no direction, creation of a maze like space and the use of corridors.
I have been researching the works of Daniel Buren and Michael Asher and their reactions to gallery space. One of the most appealing ideas came from reading about Buren’s exhibition The Museum That Did Not Exist. This exhibition was at the Centre Pompidou a few years ago. Buren split the space he eventually negotiated for the exhibition into a chequer board type effect (Below). The aim of the space was to allow the visitors to move as they pleased. In theaccompanying catalogue Bernard Blistène said ‘… very few exhibitions offer so much freedom to their visitors. Few, too, have so determinately refused to impose an itinerary. Few have been constructed with such a resolute idea about avoiding and scheduled, marked out route… Buren wanted people to get lost in his show. No question of a beginning or an end, of any obligatory circuit or a laid out path…’ I think that I would like to achieve something similar in my own gallery.
