arteles_catalogue_2014

IN THE RESIDENCY
July 2014
MARIE-LOUISE ANDERSSON
Denmark
mmarieland@gmail.com // www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Tb6ezpIuw
Marie-Louise Andersson is currently working on a series of
drawings, performances, and audio.
Geometry of Language is a piece based on a series of drawings in a
diagrammatic sense along with an audio walk, and performances.
Marie-Louise Andersson fascination of plan drawings of places
is the idea of representation of place, since the diagrams are
able to combine spatial and non-spatial ideas. To present
a real and an imagined world, abstract ideas and concrete
proposals. Diagrams or plan drawings are all seeing but also
deceptive and illusory - it hides not only the third dimension but
as well the dynamics, temporal and sensual qualities of place.
In renaissance Italy they shaped the so called ideal cities on
abstract rules of proportion and symmetry shaped spaces as an
imaging serene of unpopulated spaces.
By the work Geometry of Language, I intend to draw on principles
in geometry. Playing with references as the ideal renaissance cities
and the pineapple’s symmetry as shape and its cultural history - as
both an esthetic constellation and as a growing syntactic structure
for language, to create an imaginary place out of time and out of
any real place.
The pineapple spread from South America to its coast and
north to the islands of the Caribbean and European continent
with its gardens and hothouses to mimic the tropics in the
temperate zone and created artificial places to make it grow
and bloom on the Europeans idea and fascination of the exotics.
It became the beginning of a European spinning love affair with
the princess of fruits, its precious shape and complex beauty
originated from the tropics made it popular but difficult to cultivate
in Europe. The cultivation of the pineapple disappeared throughout
Europe and finally back to plantations in the tropics as Europeans
colonized and import slightly changed in society. Into modern
time the export and sale of the pineapple got labeled as comfort
of sun-kissed lands, ocean breeze, sensuality and a sweet scent
of paradise.