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LAb[au] Editions presents art in the form of publications. Many recent projects have generated libraries, archives, and cabinets whose conceptual frameworks rely on reproduction, iteration, seriality, and multiplication.

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Many of these works emerge from extensive processes of research and development. These processes often generate extensive series of results that require reproducible material forms—digital prints, photocopies, colour samples, index cards, folders, or other formats. In these formats, the underlying concepts find precise material expression. For some, the edition constitutes the very form through which the work exists.

 

LAb[au] Editions creates a dedicated field in which these works can be produced under viable conditions and circulated directly at accessible prices.

Through an autonomous structure of publication and distribution, LAb[au] Editions preserves the integrity of each work while remaining complementary to our collaborations with galleries.

 

The value of these artist books, monographs, multiples, and limited or open editions lies in their distinct material and conceptual qualities, in the knowledge and experience they make accessible, and in the engagement with our work and research that they enable.

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Made to circulate—to be read, handled, collected, and shared.

Interstice by LAb[au], unfolded architectural map overlaying the original plan with a precise survey of Société, Brussels

interstice - map

MAP

Interstice map, signed
LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Els Vermang
2018
Société, Brussels

 

  • Map Details

    Year: 2018
    Size unfolded: 84.1 × 118.9 cm
    Scale: 1:40
    Printed and folded architectural plan
    Grey cardboard portfolio with orange elastic cord
    Signed, stamped and numbered
    Edition of 400

    Created for the exhibition Measurements at Société, Brussels.

  • Description

    Interstice names the interval between two things. Created for the exhibition Measurements at Société, Brussels, the work takes the exhibition space itself as its subject. A surveyor measured the rooms to the nearest millimetre, and his survey was superimposed on the architect’s original plan. What was projected and what was built appear together; the deviations between them become the interstices made visible by the work.

     

    The map turns measurement—normally treated as objective—into a way of examining the relation between ideal model and material reality. It invites the viewer to regard architecture not as a neutral container, but as a space produced between conception and construction.

     

    Three brass survey markers indicate the exact positions from which the surveyor placed his instruments. They also provide the clearest overview of the rooms, allowing visitors to occupy the position of the measurer. Together, plan and markers transform measurement into both an artistic method and a way of seeing.

  • Shipping

    Please allow up to two weeks before dispatch. Shipping costs are calculated according to destination. The map is shipped in protective packaging.

€50.00Price
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