Hunting Life; A Forever House
Starting November, 2021
A virtual exhibition by David Gersten
“The universe is made of stories not of atoms.”
-Muriel Rukeyser
We are pleased to present ‘Hunting Life; A Forever House’ an exhibition of drawings, stories, and structures by David Gersten. This work began in 1990 as David Gersten’s thesis in Architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. The work continued over a ten-year period between 1990-2000. The continuous creative dialogue with Dean John Hejduk and the long-established creative community of the Cooper Union were central to the creation of this work. The project itself is a community, drawn, written, and built as a spatial, poetic and material imagination of the social contract. The project is divided into three parts: Making and Memory, Maturation, and A Forever House. Prefigure sets the entire community in motion. In 2002, the publisher Charles Firmin Didot, proposed to publish a book of the entire set of drawings at full scale. The reproductions of the drawings presented in this exhibition are a result of that publishing project.
