Inner School of Open Studies

by Protey Temen

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Objects, Albums, Flakes

This section of the site presents a selection of objects, albums and layered compositions, maps and small elements from the “Relative Explanations”, “Cave of Generosity”, and “Calculation” cycles. Each artwork reveals a specific visual language, combining abstract forms and graphic symbols with elements of interfaces, logical diagrams, and  dashboards.

Flakes

Series of Artworks

This series unfolds around archaeological finds, caves, relics, and magic. Debris, flakes of cultural layers, stapled or pseudo-documentary digital images, and hallucinations of outdated algorithms.

Canvas Documents

Drawing, Canvas, Object

Soft, cloth documents folded several times, as if some kind of record. Stapled in sets, separate sheets, tables or records, charts or sketches.

 

Signs

Drawing, Object

“Relative Explanations” cycle. “Signs” series, 2023. Black paperboard, white chalk, white pencil, machine-cut arrangements. Various sizes.

Silhouettes of Drawings

Drawing, Object

This series combines elements reminiscent of scientific diagrams and cave paintings, with black cardboard cutouts hung on the wall like an unstable breathing collection of insects. Linear cutouts articulate the ephemeral nature of arranged and documented reasonings, torned off the surface of someones notepad. Through layered and sometimes recognizable motifs, the infinite composition of the material manifests a visionary perspective of a cloud-shaped arrangement of thoughts.

Document Arrangements

Paper, Mechanical Drawing, Object

Layers of black matte cardboard, chalk, white gel ink, mechanical cut, mechanical drawing, black staples. 2021—2022. Published by Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context, by Max Planck Institute and Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Paper Machines

Paper, Mechanical Drawing, Object

To be published

Wave Structures Album

Drawing, Album

A 12-page album devoted to the documentation and description of the individual parts of the wave, the dynamics of development, some patterns of directional change and fragility. The notes around the edges of the sheet make it difficult to make a thorough guess as to what specific type of wave this wave is, what you need to know about it, and how to treat it.

Notebooks of Relations

Drawing, Albums

…a profound exploration of speculative models, realized through a series of hundreds of small intuitive schematic drawings. Through the process of sketching, the elusive point of emptiness, the delicate frame of the moment, and the naive map depicted. These set of dozens of drawings serve as a gateway to understanding the intricate ways in which these ephemeral concepts can manifested and formalized.

Books

Drawing, Albums

Sometimes like study notes, notebooks with homework, other times like textbooks, blurred in time. The floating scale of the records makes them seem as if they are too close to your face, or as if they are dissolving into the distance.

 

Cards, Fragments, Components

Paper, Drawing

Layers of black matte cardboard, white gel ink, mechanical cut, mechanical drawing, eyelets. Various sizes. 2018—Ongoing

Particles of Me, Particles of You

Cotton, Embroidery, Object

High quality 100% cotton, machine embroidery, felt insert, 30 × 40 cm, 12 pieces, 2017.