Also included in the exhibition are three recent works which investigate the mental maps we make to interpret space: In Going Nowhere, 1998, a figure slowly disappears over a hill as it walks through drifting snow. Like an out of body experience, the camera left behind on its tripod, records the figures departure, absence and eventual reappearance. Map, 1999, is literally a simple, line-drawn map but one which seems to describe a parrallel universe. The outlines are familiar and yet the countries and seas are alien. In this map the world has been turned on its head. What was water has become land; what was land has become water. What should be a tool to interpret the world has become untrustworthy; what was familiar is now skewd and strange. Lee Navigation, 1999, again records a journey - traveling from the mouth of the River Lee where it meets the Thames in East London, to its source beneath a tower block in Luton, a series of Palm Pilot drawings reconfigure this strange urban non-space, recording isolated fragments of skyline, objects and signs found in this bizarre and banal landscape.

Simon Faithfull Psychotopography
at Artsway (UK)
simon faithfull's journal
at Namibia International Artists Workshop at Dia Nippon