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Carys Briggs and Francis Field: fragmentedfragmentfragments
Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s, an exhibition by Carys Briggs and Francis Field. Curated by Ashlee Conery, the exhibition brings together an immersive installation by London based artist Briggs, and Ocean, a proposition for the first man-made planet designed by London based designer Field.
f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s begins at the point of escape. A point, where the choice is to innovate and leave in search of new frontiers or survey fragments for familiar patterns to build an environment between home and away. This exhibition does not seek to document the present moment but to guess at the future through the lenses of architecture and the abstract. In 1968 Hans Hollein famously said 'Alles ist Architektur' (Everything is architecture). With this he implied that the process of transforming material - any material - was in fact architecture. Francis Field鈥檚 plans for constructing an ocean in space using asteroids as the raw material and the Translunar Lagrange Point (L2) as the site, takes this proposition a step further. At the time of its completion Ocean would be the greatest resource for sustaining human life in outer-space and supporting our further exploration of distance solar systems. It would also be an evolving ecosystem. Its concept inverts the current practice of discovering resources and sustaining them, to making reproductive resources that may evolve beyond our ability to access them.
At present the term 'alien' has expanded in contemporary rhetoric to include those outside our hemisphere as well as those beyond our atmosphere. The borders at which one becomes alien, are liminal spaces where potential and regression, economics and physics, collide. An installation by London based fibre artist Carys Briggs incorporates empirical methods of analysis, laying them over abstract representations in a constructed world of fragments. By reducing familiar forms to vague representations on layers of fabrics, whose textures are both surface and structure, she positions the viewer as a foreigner searching for associations -wandering through an environment that is between memory and discovery.
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Pi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to present f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s, an exhibition by Carys Briggs and Francis Field. Curated by Ashlee Conery, the exhibition brings together an immersive installation by London based artist Briggs, and Ocean, a proposition for the first man-made planet designed by London based designer Field.
f r a g m e n t e d f r a g m e n t f r a g m e n t s begins at the point of escape. A point, where the choice is to innovate and leave in search of new frontiers or survey fragments for familiar patterns to build an environment between home and away. This exhibition does not seek to document the present moment but to guess at the future through the lenses of architecture and the abstract. In 1968 Hans Hollein famously said 'Alles ist Architektur' (Everything is architecture). With this he implied that the process of transforming material - any material - was in fact architecture. Francis Field鈥檚 plans for constructing an ocean in space using asteroids as the raw material and the Translunar Lagrange Point (L2) as the site, takes this proposition a step further. At the time of its completion Ocean would be the greatest resource for sustaining human life in outer-space and supporting our further exploration of distance solar systems. It would also be an evolving ecosystem. Its concept inverts the current practice of discovering resources and sustaining them, to making reproductive resources that may evolve beyond our ability to access them.
At present the term 'alien' has expanded in contemporary rhetoric to include those outside our hemisphere as well as those beyond our atmosphere. The borders at which one becomes alien, are liminal spaces where potential and regression, economics and physics, collide. An installation by London based fibre artist Carys Briggs incorporates empirical methods of analysis, laying them over abstract representations in a constructed world of fragments. By reducing familiar forms to vague representations on layers of fabrics, whose textures are both surface and structure, she positions the viewer as a foreigner searching for associations -wandering through an environment that is between memory and discovery.
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