Line Drawing VII is, at its title
suggest, the seventh in a series of drawings, of a diecast
scale model Yugo, that I am exhibiting in galleries around the world
in an attempt to create a trans-global line drawing.
With each drawing
the exhibiting gallery receives a Yugo Car Pin that serves as a
nominal map pin marking its location. Taking Paul Auster’s iconic
detective novel The New York Trilogy
as its initial inspiration, in which Auster’s street walking
character Stillman spells out his message through the route he takes,
as the project develops virtual connections are created between each
Yugo pin point. Ultimately, if they were to be joined together with a
physical line, the lines would spell written across both hemispheres
I Love my Yugo.
Sitting within the
framework of the ongoing multi-media
project ‘I love my Yugo’ the car’s status, complicated by both
personal and national inheritance, becomes elevated by scale and
association. The original Yugo 45 was purchased in 1988 as a family
car and inherited reluctantly in 1995. The car was then retired as a
functioning vehicle in 2006 and itself transformed into an artwork
through the addition of letraset text on its bodywork. It is
currently in storage awaiting a musical.
Drawings have been
exhibited so far in Moscow, Beijing, Sligo and London with Line
Drawings V and VI also opening in Melbourne galleries Seventh and
Screen Space this month. An excerpt from the video I Love my Yugo can
be seen here http://www.sarahcarne.co.uk/videos/
Sarah Carne June 2013
