Abstract
Collage - where touch meets vision.
“At once serious and tongue-in-cheek, they methodically re-examined painting and sculpture and gave each medium some of the characteristics of the other. In the process they invented collage.” Diane Waldman, speaking of Picasso and Braque.[1]
Collage (from the French ‘coller’, to glue) in Modern Art occurs when the flat surface of the canvas breaks into the third dimension and takes on virtues that can be both seen and touched. It is where the techniques of sculpture and painting collide.
Using Irigarary’s texts, The Sex which is Not One, An ethics of sexual difference and The Mechanics of Fluids which examine the nature of sexual difference, I will frame painting and image as relating predominately to vision and sculpture relating to touch. This critique makes collage the surface from which ideas of space and site in Architecture can be explored.
