This Room Will Survive Me – Architecture and Interiority

Description

In these images, Konits explores psychic space in architecture – an interior dimension where experience is felt and held.

Psychoanalysis has traditionally framed inner experience within the analytic room; this work extends that idea to architecture itself. Approaching the threshold of a room, the self seems to be separate from it; once inside, the room disappears.
Noise falls away and attention narrows, as presence comes into focus. As figure and architecture merge, the work suggests how rooms shape our sense of self in space and time. Informed by architectural thinkers such as Juhani Pallasmaa, who describes architecture as a mediation between the world and the mind, This Room Will Survive Me invites viewers to experience rooms inwardly and sense the slow flow of time and memory.

Cindy Konits (United States, b. 1954) is a lens-based artist exploring family history and identity. She won first prize in the Visual Art Open, Photography and Digital Art 2023, first and second prize in The Photo Review Competition 2021 and 2022 respectively, numerous Julia Margaret Cameron and Pollux awards and first prizes in London, Budapest and Vienna International Photo Awards. Solo exhibitions traveled from The Baltimore Museum of Industry and The Baltimore Jewish Museum with National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities grants respectively. Her film The Way I See It, nominated Best Documentary Short, screened in nineteen international film festivals, and her work is held in public and private collections.

Cindy’s work was first edited by Elizabeth Avedon and then handed over to designer Teun van der Heijden.
The combination of these two exceptional creative minds led to the brilliant visual flow this book contains.

Gary van Zante, Curator of Architecture, Design and Photography and former Director of Exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum, spoke extensively with Cindy Konits. The outcome of these conversations is part of this book.

In addition, essays are included by Juhani Pallasmaa, Finnish architect, theorist, writer of over seventy books and eight hundred essays, and former director of both the Finnish Museum of Architecture and the Architecture Program at Helsinki University of Technology, Nancy Olsen, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Coordinator of the Muriel Gardiner Program for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale University, and Borbála Jász, philosopher, art and architectural historian.

ISBN 978 90 5330 966 7

Format: 21 x 27 cm portrait
Double carton softcover with flaps
202 pages including partly Japanese binding (130 visible pages) with approx. 60 photos in full color