Survey Markers
Survey Markers
Survey Markers are a part of Sanie Irsay’s How deep do borders go? series which investigates the border, and the instruments and infrastructures it entails, from physical boundary markers to the laws that assert them. Irsay invites audiences to think critically about the apparatus that produces ‘land,’ and to investigate — and intervene in — the standards and practices of geospatial and geopolitical work.
Property surveying markers are physical objects used by land surveyors to mark the boundaries of a property. These markers are typically placed at the corners and sometimes along the boundary lines of a property to define the limits of ownership. Irsay’s sculptures and drawings investigate the various apparatus, tools, schemas and building blocks that permeate our daily built environment and govern our movements through space.
Materials and size::
Plaster, cement, pigment
3 9/10 × 3 9/10 × 17 7/10 in
10 × 10 × 45 cm
About the artist:
Sanie Irsay is a Crimean Tatar artist and designer living and working in New York. She attended Parsons School of Design in Paris, France, where she received a full-tuition scholarship. Her work has been shown in France, Canada and across the U.S. Forthcoming projects include Protest Fields: A Study of Placeholders journal publication in the Avery Review.
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