FOUR ROOMS
Second in the Room Series, this iteration was a month-long installation, presented as the inaugural exhibition of Atelier 1888, Gallery 1888’s artist residency program.
Staged in four evolving chapters, the project unfolded weekly, transforming the skylight gallery into a living, shifting architecture of memory. At its centre stood an 8 x 8-foot magical mirrored cube: a cinematic device and spatial anchor that reflected, obscured, and reconfigured each room’s surrounding environment.
Merging expanded cinema, architectural intervention, and autonomous light and sound performances, Four Rooms explored the porous boundaries between body, space, and narrative. The installation invited visitors to step into a surreal reimagining of the domestic interior, where emotion, memory, and perception blurred.
Anchoring each room was a familiar furniture; bed, bath, sofa and dining table. Each a domestic archetype, these four bodily vessels and their multitude of connotations serve as the visceral and cognitive anchor for dream narratives that unfold and scatter in time and space through autonomous theatrical performances of lights, projections and soundscapes. Entangling with embodied experiences brought forth by the audience, familiar motifs become narrative strands upon which a morphing, oneiric tapestry appears, woven from mind, matter and memory.
The magical cube oscillates between states of obstruction and threshold, tearing and stitching the room in turns. Its two-way mirror walls transition from reflective surfaces to transparent windows in response to light. Outwardly lit, the mirrors collage surrounding corners and reflections, tossing together room fragments in fleeting compositions. Lit from within by layered projections, the cube transcends its physical boundaries by internally expanding in infinite dimension.
collaborators: Cassra (lighting design)
Gaurav Kodesia (videography)
Emma Pandy-Szekeres (performance)
Leander Kalil (Card Illustrations)
Second in the Room Series, this iteration was a month-long installation, presented as the inaugural exhibition of Atelier 1888, Gallery 1888’s artist residency program.
Staged in four evolving chapters, the project unfolded weekly, transforming the skylight gallery into a living, shifting architecture of memory. At its centre stood an 8 x 8-foot magical mirrored cube: a cinematic device and spatial anchor that reflected, obscured, and reconfigured each room’s surrounding environment.
Merging expanded cinema, architectural intervention, and autonomous light and sound performances, Four Rooms explored the porous boundaries between body, space, and narrative. The installation invited visitors to step into a surreal reimagining of the domestic interior, where emotion, memory, and perception blurred.
Anchoring each room was a familiar furniture; bed, bath, sofa and dining table. Each a domestic archetype, these four bodily vessels and their multitude of connotations serve as the visceral and cognitive anchor for dream narratives that unfold and scatter in time and space through autonomous theatrical performances of lights, projections and soundscapes. Entangling with embodied experiences brought forth by the audience, familiar motifs become narrative strands upon which a morphing, oneiric tapestry appears, woven from mind, matter and memory.
The magical cube oscillates between states of obstruction and threshold, tearing and stitching the room in turns. Its two-way mirror walls transition from reflective surfaces to transparent windows in response to light. Outwardly lit, the mirrors collage surrounding corners and reflections, tossing together room fragments in fleeting compositions. Lit from within by layered projections, the cube transcends its physical boundaries by internally expanding in infinite dimension.
collaborators: Cassra (lighting design)
Gaurav Kodesia (videography)
Emma Pandy-Szekeres (performance)
Leander Kalil (Card Illustrations)