Ela Bittencourt on Thea Djordjadze (Flash Art)
“The house, even more than the landscape, is a ‘psychic state,’ and even when reproduced as it appears from the outside, it bespeaks intimacy,” the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote in his seminal book The Poetics of Space (1957).[2] Bachelard’s phenomenological approach shifted the understanding of architecture away from pure physics and geometry to embodiment, perception, and psychological resonance. Despite drawing on Jung’s theory of archetypes, Bachelard believed that it was not psychology but rather poetic images that reached the deepest layers of the human unconscious. His influential theory, centered on the inner “house of dream-memory,” on space as a vehicle for poiesis (from the Greek phrase meaning “to bring into being”), established a dialogical correspondence between concrete forms and subjective experience.
Bachelard’s theory of poetic image, which, as he argued, gave form to the past’s imprint on the human psyche not by literally reproducing it but by making it reverberate anew in the body, finds a meaningful counterpart in the work of Berlin-based, Georgian-born artist Thea Djordjadze.
Takeyoshi Nishiuchi …
“We meet in the freedoms of each other” via Summer Mei Ling Lee.
“Dwelling Together: Takeyoshi Nishiuchi and the Aesthetic Imagination of The Everyday”/ ?????????????????????????? in Forms of the Everyday—Art, Architecture, Literature, Cuisine, ??????? ?? ???????????Michiko Tsushima, Eriko Yamaguchi, eds. (Tsukuba, Japan: Tsukuba University Press, April 2023).
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