Artifacts—Seven Objects Since Rome
Wednesday, Oct 1, 20146 PM — Friday, Nov 7, 20149 PMEDT
| 46 Waltham Street, Courtyard One Boston, MA
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While living in Rome among architectures of the distant past, an architect’s contemporary culture is displaced by the powerful contrast of the storied city and its layered histories. Such an environment provides an experience—maybe temporary, perhaps permanent—that unsettles and destabilizes one’s outlook on the current status of the architectural discipline. The seven artifacts shown in this exhibition, produced following the Rome Prize Fellowship in 2012-2013, are manifestations of the influences of old buildings in Rome. The objects reflect a preoccupation with anachronous methods of form-making, redeployed in a contemporary context in order to challenge, enrich, and diversify our own understanding of formal languages. These objects focus on the potential renewed relevance of old orders of cultural formality, such as mirroring, symmetry, axiality, and proportionality. Fortress is a large inflatable mirrored torus that safeguards a tree in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mask disguises a space of contemplation and memorial on a cliff along Cayuga Lake in Lansing Village, New York. Non-Labyrinths are part of a series of formal experimentations in figuration and hierarchy. Dwelling houses three siblings and their families on the shore of Great Salt Pond on Block Island, Rhode Island. Church is a very tall translucent inflatable ovoid in Gurgaon, India. Hut is an illuminated shelter from the rain along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. Totems II represent a continuation of the rehearsal of forms of ornamentation and silhouettes. —William O’Brien Jr. Details at pinkcomma.com.
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