Louise Potzesny
MA work
MA work
They have traced lines and lived inside them
Challenging preconceptions about sound as a disembodied phenomenon and architecture as a solely material manifestation, They have traced lines and lived inside them1 explores the liminal spaces between sound and architecture. The curators invited artist Sophie Mallett and architect Emma Letizia Jones to work together on this new project, fostering a collaboration in which the relationship between art and architecture would develop simultaneously. The result of this exchange is Liminal States, an installation that investigates the aural and spatial politics of border territories.
Liminal States presents new material collected by Mallett and Jones during a recent trip to Melilla, an autonomous enclave on the North African coast, claimed by Spain but considered occupied territory by Morocco. Audio recordings and moving image trace paths in the gallery for listening and viewing. Three radio transmissions are broadcast to delineate different sonic territories, repurposing the technology often used in surveillance as a method of cartography to carve out new landscapes. In between these zones, the white noise picked up by the receivers references the anomalous terrain of Melilla, where the economies of border protection and cross-border commerce collide. Â
1 ‘It has always been this way with the mapmakers: from their first scratches on cave walls to show the migration patterns of the herds, they have traced lines and lived inside them.’ Maya Sonenberg, Cartographies (New York: Ecco Press, 1990)
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Curating Contemporary Art, 2016
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Contact
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I am a British curator based in London. I obtained a BA in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts, and went on to study Curating at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York before completing my MA at the Royal College of Art. I have worked in institutions and galleries in London and New York, and previously commissioned OBELISKS, a temporary site-specific sculpture for Dovehouse Green in Chelsea and project-exhibition They have traced lines and lived inside them. I have a strong interest in collaborative and collective practices, both involving artists and other curators.
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Degrees
- BA Photography, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, 2013; Sotheby's Insitute of Art, New York City, 2014
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Experience
- Arts programming and curatorial internship, chashama, New York City, 2014; Artist Alliance inc. & Cuchifritos Gallery, New York City, 2014; No Longer Empty, New York City, 2014; Saatchi Gallery, London 2014; Proud Galleries, London, 2013; Gallery assistant, Tintype Gallery, London, 2012
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Exhibitions
- They have traced lines and lived inside them, London, 2016; OBELISKS, London, 2015