A meditation on the experience of space is at the heart of the work of Marie Jeanne Hoffner (b. 1974). In her drawings, imprints of space, models, cutout maps and technical diagrams she combines both subjective and structural analysis of place. This coexistence of physical reality and its representation, revealing conjunction between sensuous perception and conceptual thought, questions “our capacity to project mentally into spaces and the possibility of thinking places.”

The series of photographs entitled Landscape vs architecture shows artist’s interest in the idea of the shifting of place and the notion of the territory and its imaginary resonance: the play of projections and superpositions simulates the emergence of unlikely urban landscapes.

The House-Tree collages conflate actual and virtual reality and invent the idea of the “house-object” while the series of cutout drawings in the form of neutral-looking architectonic sketches draws on the singularity of memory. Thus Marie-Jeanne Hoffner puts her finger on the cultural and personal factors behind our apprehension of space and the symbolic significance that we invest in it. By stimulating our capacity for dream, her works call into doubt the certitudes of perception.