THE PATHWAY
Glass
2021
Art Here 2021, Richard Mille Art Prize
Memory, Time, Territory

Latifa explores the contours of the social terrain by focusing on the gaps opened by the building blocks of the urban landscape. The pavement brick is the basic unit of construction and the point of contact between inhabitants and their territory. Often overlooked, traversed by movement, it is at once central to and separate from its immediate environment. Here, these elements are isolated, molded, and carefully placed, focusing our attention on the invisible structures which mediate the intimate act of placing one's feet on the ground. In Saeed's hands, the forces of construction slow down, becoming "visual whispers", fluid compositional structures that, both transparent and physical, are designed to be both looked at and looked through. As movement in time is delayed, we recognize the essential features of space unfolding as place.
Image courtesy of Augustine Paredes / Seeing Things
Image courtesy of Augustine Paredes / Seeing Things