NYC Subway Map, 2000
(80 x 120 x 0,5 cm, knotted colored cotton strings)

The intertwining underground rail systems of various countries are reduced to limp tangles in Ulrike Solbrig’s Subway Maps. Each station notches up a knot on the string that represents the line of the train, with interchanging stations being points where the different strings are knotted together. The links between the lines and the relationships of depth can be interpreted in a three dimensional and tactile way, only the scale is at fault as the nature of the schematised map does not relate directly to any reality of depth of train. Catherine Hemlryk

The Subway Maps Series has been created for the symposium and exhibition.

It has been presented at:

Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective, Damian Skinner, Art Jewelry Forum New York, NY 2013

"What do you Wear? - Jewelry!", 2000, Kollonaden, Heiligendamm, Casa Lamm Mexico

OONA, Berlin 2001

EXTREME CRAFTS, 2007, Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius

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