metamaquettes
METAMAQUETTES:
Between
the Lab and the Site
Metamaquettes:
Between the Lab and the Site exhibition
presents a body of works exploring subjective perceptions of space and user’s
engagement. Metamaquettes (projects) are installations, models, and mock-ups that
question their own nature yet create playful spaces in which to explore
cognition/perception, scale, light and (im)materiality, while investigating
subjectivity, neglected notions about sensory experiences, communal habits, and
the ordinary and vernacular elements of culture. Being a composite word that derives from the Greek μετά/meta, and the French maquette, Metamaquette literally translates as after/post/among/beyond the
models. Swinging between the real and its representation, Metamaquettes (projects) occupy the
liminal space of laboratory-cum-site, becoming simultaneously both experiments
and experiences. As Bruno Latour claims that science experimentation has now moved outside the
laboratory, to the world wide lab, where we all engage in a
series of experiments collectively attempting to survive, Metamaquettes presents new states for projects, where the laboratory
and site merge into one: Models and experiments alter to spatial, and public
spaces (also galleries and lobbies) turn into opportunities for experiments - in
these we all collectively participate to test an idea, witnessing its appeal
and prospect. By positioning installations as
meta-spaces that depart from the service model of architecture practice, Metamaquettes exhibition lends a fresh perspective on the
influence of installations in contemporary architecture. The
minimum quality of
this architecture is subjected to specific costs,
materials, and other resources and conditions. However what in Metamaquettes appears as experimental
and innovative, will soon become integral part of the new traditional.
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