Editing Edifices
The chair broke. It simply ceased to function as intended and the Prime Minister sustained an injury that would remove him from office and lead to the downfall of his Portuguese Government. The role of that singular object in changing the course of a nation suggests that inanimate objects and built structures may participate in our larger stories. A story where the authors are only limited by their imagination and the improbability of characters. If the breaking of a chair could shift the future of one country, perhaps our reliance on an inanimate object should be malleable and adaptable to current trends.
Editing Edifices addresses the human relationship to the spaces around us. The work examines how built structures could be influenced by our societal patterns and how objects rule our storage spaces. It visualizes a reinvention of the structures and patterns that have become common sense and built into our expectation of the future. The work suggests a new possibility for our relationships with space and the way we fill them. This exhibition presents an impossible reconfiguring of our built environment and takes another look at the objects we gather and the spaces we inhabit.
The themes in the work exist beyond architecture, our attic storage space, and the nooks and crannies we fill. It suggests that our ability to adapt and reconfigure the elements around us could be beneficial. Taking a closer look at our preconceived expectations may actually result in shifting the foreshadowing of our climate, extinctions of species, political culture, and communities. To make a giant jump in these futures, perhaps the patterns and structures we find familiar need to drastically adapt. These constantly shifting relationships should write new stories for the structures we build and the things we carry into them.