ARGO NAVIS
2011- ongoing
Argo Navis is a disjunctive universe, a dispersed reading that follows four old tales. The fractured stories talk about the Jump Cut and it's perversion of Time and Narrative; of hiccups and their rise against the tyranny of air flows; of medieval chapter titles and of the relationship between knights-errant and their scribes.
The title of the work is borrowed from the southern sky constellation discovered in the 2nd century by Ptolemy and named after Jason and the Argonauts. During sixteen centuries it was regarded as the largest constellation of all, only to be dismantled into various others in the 18th century.
Chapter I. Argo Navis, 2011
Inkjet print on synthetic adhesive paper, 9ft x 20ft
Short Stories, a project by Isla Leaver-Yap
Sculpture Center, New York
photo credit Jascon Mandella
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Chapter II. Pyxis, 2012
Inkjet print on synthetic adhesive paper, 9ft x 20ft
Estate, a project by Lucie Fontaine
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
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