Marc Augé
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity

Modernity in art preserves all the temporalities of place, the ones that are located in space and in words.

If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place.

Place and non-place are rather like opposed polarities: the first is never completely erased, the second never totally completed; they are like palimpsests on which the scrambled game of identity and relations is ceaselessly rewritten.

To frequent space, Michel de Certeau writes, is ‘to repeat the gleeful and silent experience of infancy: to be other, and go over to the other, in a place’.