Architectural body and vestige
2023-2024
In this series, a demolished architecture sculpted in steel is colonized by living matter that restore the raw organ, repair the frame.
The volume is complemented by a mural counterpart; its relic that reminds of what was before the act of destruction.
To repair the demolished architectural body a growth of organisms cling together, forming a graft.
Braided, knotted ropes build a new skin or façade, reconstituting the body. This malleable, handcrafted textile conglomerate contrasts with the flexible, fragile grid and the rigid, precious lacquered steel.
Mirroring the volume, a mural, like a relic, is inspired by the Shinto tradition in which Kamidana (altars of the dead) are hung in homes in memory of the deceased. The mural takes up the geometry of the original structure, and makes use of reclaimed steel fragments. Around these fragments, organic matter proliferates and spreads, like a fruit growing around its core.
This vestige sublimates the act of destruction, gives value to the remains and honors the memory of the battered body.
The two works respond to each other in form, material and color, each expressing a different space-time. The volume demolished then rebuilt is part of the present, while its relic, evoking the origin, the act of demolition, is in the past.
The volume and its mural works respond to each other in form, material and color, each expressing a different space-time.
The volume demolished then rebuilt is part of the present, while its relic, evoking the origin, the act of demolition, is in the pas
Rubble : mural, remain of "restore"
The mural takes up the geometry of the original structure, and makes use of reclaimed steel fragments. Around these fragments, organic matter proliferates and spreads, like a fruit growing around its core.
This vestige sublimates the act of destruction, gives value to the remains and honors the memory of the battered body.
The mural takes up the geometry of the original structure, and makes use of reclaimed steel fragments. Around these fragments, organic matter proliferates and spreads, like a fruit growing around its core.
This vestige sublimates the act of destruction, gives value to the remains and honors the memory of the battered body.
Creation process scheme
A demolished architectural body is repaired while its reclaimed fragments are preserved to create its remain.
This relic will keep the memory of the original body alive through time.
Scree : remain of "rebuilding", mural
Scree : mural, remain of "rebuilding"