This project consists in a series of maps retracing and diseccating selected formal features of metropolitan networks, in a 4-part work: ‘Flâner’ presents the hydrographic networks, ‘Arriver / Partir’ deals with entry points and channels that are railways and runways, ‘Typonymie’ lists all the placenames.
A series of maps stripped down from any visual aid or descriptive symbol, only letting through the physical outlines of hydrographic and railways networks, bound by administrative limits of the metropolitan area.
‘Anatomy of a City’ relies on the reader’s memory to put a name on this amalgam of shapes, some of which are familiar, becoming almost common, others remaining abstract graphical constructions.
From these forced drawings emerge a formal vocabulary oscillating between natural and artificial, free and constrained, recognised or unknowable, according to the spectator’s familiarity with the shape of a city. This set of fluid or intricate lines strangely echoes the organic aspect of a diseccated tissue.
I : Naissance
II: Arriver
III: Partir
IV: Typonymie
