House Mon-/ Mel-/Mer-/ Daedal is a site-specific installation of ephemeral structures created in my rented council apartment. These ‘lived-in’ structures, re-created in the public/gallery space, maintain an ambiguous state, in between the notions of artistic, intimate, public spaces. The technique used is what I have termed as a ‘collage of echoes’ or mise en abîme -collage, a Deluzian flow of curviliniar, folding/-unfolding matter. It is an (appropriated/reflected)’Merzian’ collage of the inhabited space. Materials are mainly charcoal and tape (alluding to/echoing Mondrian’s paintings and constructed studio). The central theme is that of constrictive collective housing. It is a poetic structure of elytra-like ephemera, inspired by Konstantin Melnikov’s Daedalian house, built during the USSR communal housing period.
The piece included two stages – one, represented by the installation in my rented flat and the second by the one (re)-created in the building of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. It shall contain future re-folding stages, its current stated being essentially unfinished, undetermined, in flux.
House Mon-/ Mel-/Mer-/ Daedal – fragments of the installation in the gallery of Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London
House Mon-/ Mel-/Mer-/ Daedal – fragments of the installation in my rented council flat
Room was created for the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design interim show at the V22 gallery in Bermondsey, London
Miranda was created for the show in the Concourse Gallery at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as a poetical response to that space
