Centre Pompidou Installation: Continuities of the Incomplete

In Media

Connected Isolation, a Unique Panoramic

On exhibit from March 8, 2006 until July 17, 2006

Posted: Feb 22nd, 2009 / Last Edited: Jun 24th, 2010 Print

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Continuities of the Incomplete documents ten years of discrete works by Morphosis forged into a unique panoramic of models, drawings, photographs, and videos. The exhibit components, presented under a continuous folding surface that mediates the spectator’s experience, enable a broader perspective and different durations of experience, allowing each work to be appreciated in connective isolation. Like Alice’s looking glass, the glazed surface acts as window and mirror to become the datum of the project. Its surface reflects the viewer and the context of the Pompidou, overlaying both reflections onto the work exhibited below. The viewer thus sees himself or herself in relation to the work and sees the exhibit in relation to its context, the exposed ductwork and infrastructure of the Pompidou’s ceiling.
Continuities of the Incomplete documents ten years of discrete works by Morphosis forged into a unique panoramic of models, drawings, photographs, and videos. The exhibit components, presented under a continuous folding surface that mediates the spectator’s experience, enable a broader perspective and different durations of experience, allowing each work to be appreciated in connective isolation. Like Alice’s looking glass, the glazed surface acts as window and mirror to become the datum of the project. Its surface reflects the viewer and the context of the Pompidou, overlaying both reflections onto the work exhibited below. The viewer thus sees himself or herself in relation to the work and sees the exhibit in relation to its context, the exposed ductwork and infrastructure of the Pompidou’s ceiling.

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