Simcha Ziya Moïse
Keywords: Grid, Image-making, Distributed authorship
Internship: Team Thursday
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Negotiating the Grid explores how image-making changes when it begins from a pre-existing structure rather than an empty surface. Using a single element—the circle—within different grid systems, the work examines how variation, repetition, layering, and sequence influence the relationship between structure and form. The grid is treated not as a neutral background, but as an active participant that shapes decisions and redistributes authorship within the making process. The resulting works emerged through an ongoing negotiation between structure and intervention.
A complimentary publication produced as part of the project, bringing it back to its original source of inspiration: the notebook. The publication functions both as an artist’s book and as a usable object—a space for notes, observations, and ideas that extends the project beyond the exhibition context.