Christine Herzer x SEYMOUR+

Special Event:
making a GOODBYE drawing in a space that will cease to exist / STATEMENTS
July 25th – 29th, 2017

3pm – 6pm


 
SEYMOUR+

41 Bd de Magenta

75010 Paris
 
 
Poet and visual artist Christine Herzer will to bring her practice of ‘writing drawings’ to SEYMOUR+ during its final week.
 
Inspired by in-between-states and endings, she proposes to be a visible [creative] ghost in a space that has already been said goodbye to while still fulfilling its purpose as a container of consciousness.
 
 
“I WILL WRITE A HUGE DRAWING – 110 X 78CM – USING ONE WORD ONLY, THE WORD ‘GOODBYE’, REPEATING THE WORD ‘GOODBYE’, WRITING WITH MY LEFT HAND, BLACK MARKER ON PAPER, WRITING ON THE FLOOR. WRITING AS DEVOTION. WRITING AS COMMUNICATION = SPEAKING + RESISTING [not wanting to be found].”
 
 
Herzer’s practice may bring to mind automatic writing or Lettrisme, a french avant-garde mouvement, her motivations and methods, however, are more at home in philosophy and psychology. She carefully selects the words/phrases that she writes/repeats and sometimes mistreats. Her interest in liminality and acting out repetitive acts of ‘caring’ [i.e. writing] produce rituals of devotion and repair.
 
 
GOODBYE Writing Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 3-6pm
 
 
Visitors are invited to write ‘GOODBYE’ on the drawing [using their own writing equipment] or to speak about endings, rites of passages etc. Just like SEYMOUR+, the final destination of the drawing remains open.
 
 
For more information about her work visit: christineherzer.tumblr.com
 
ORANGE, a book of poems is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse [Brooklyn, NY] in the Fall.
 
 
 
 
image: Detail from ‘Repetition’ | ​Christine Herzer (2017) | Marker on Paper | 29,7 x 21 cm