inter-centinch
2024
artist’s multiple
limited edition of 50
Ke Xu 许珂
Numbers captured in East Germany, engineered into a tape measure between metric and imperial systems.
You can read it as a typographic study of numerals, a custom measuring tape, or an art object.
Between utility and futility, Eastern and Western cultural contexts, an art object or an everyday tool, inter-centinch challenges the ideological and cultural assumptions embedded in the act of measurement.
inter-centinch 是一个全新的度量衡，刚好位于厘米与英寸之间。inter-centinch 也是一个由宣纸制成的卷尺，卷尺上的数字来源于从东德收集的数字们。
你可以把它看作是一个关于数字的字体学习，也可以把它当作是一个特制的卷尺，或是一个art object。在有用和无用之间，在东西方文化背景之间，在艺术品和工具之间， inter-centinch 挑战植根于度量衡之中的观念与文化影响。