MODEL CITY (CONSTRAINT), 2016
Constructed out of cardboard and paper, Model City (Constraint) suggests a landscape of brute forms, referencing both geometric abstraction and modernist architecture. This configuration of models is part of an ongoing production, an ever-growing inventory, of architectural phenotypes realized by way of simple planar constructions. Something sinister is revealed in the cool language. Angled models suggest observation towers, enclosures without exits, windows for hidden eyes, and coliseum-style pits. Their fortress-like construction speaks of how enclosures offer at once protection and entrapment. Directly referencing the ways architecture can frame or control the dynamics of looking and being looked at, they reflect the power relationships inherent in all architectural spaces.
Model City (Constraint), 2016
Commune 1, Cape Town, South Africa
paper, card-stock, foam-board
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