DWB, Leuven 2005
Oda Projesi, Istanbul 2003
(with Heterotopia)
Luxus, Den Haag 2002

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DEN HAAG

In a studio in London I drew the Dutch city of Den Haag from memory. Starting from the station where I arrive when visiting the town, I imagined my way to the first stop at a friend’s house, to a studio building, to the nearest café, and so on. Where I couldn’t remember anything I stopped drawing. Some things came out larger then others because they seemed more important. Different layers in time were placed next to each other-for example a building next to the building site that was there before.

This large-scale ‘Mental Map’ was presented in Den Haag, glued to the window of the Luxus Gallery space.

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ISTANBUL

In Istanbul, a series of informal mapping workshops were held in collaboration with the urbanism group 'Heterotopia'. People passing the 'Oda Projesi' art space were asked to draw a map of the neighbourhood called Beyoglu. Because Istanbulites do not generally consult maps to navigate through the ever changing town this was not an easy task. A single, indexed map was compiled from the collection of drawings and glued onto a nearby wall.

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AMSTERDAM

For a commission by literary magazine DWB, I made a mental map of Amsterdam. In this drawing I memorised a car journey from the Southeast to the Southwest of the city that, frustratingly, took up 100 minutes because I got lost.