ABSTRACT

Have you ever wanted to squeeze behind a sculpture that’s been displayed in a corner because you wanted to know what it looks like from behind? Have you ever imagined yourself miniaturising and moving around those little artefacts displayed in a glass case? If you have, then for you, exhibition space should be something exploratory. Do you like to stand still when experiencing a sculpture even when there’s enough space to move around it? Do you like to stand still in front of a painting and contemplate its beauty from one perspective? If you do, then you treat exhibition space as something perceptual. When you have to deal with extremely complex spatial texts, can you cope with large amounts of visual or verbal information all at once? If so, then you most likely construe your world configurationally, but if you need small amounts of information more often as you move through different parts of a spatial text, then you probably tend to construe your world serially.