Threshold, Lived in Architecture, 2021 - 2022

Threshold, Lived in Architecture, 2021 - 2022

Royal Institute of British Architects, Architecture Gallery, Artist

Commissioned solo show.

Inserting a fragment of Becontree material palette in front of the listed entrance of the Architecture Gallery.

The show takes as it’s starting point Completion - can a place ever be finished, with all of the living, breathing, customisations and individual choices that are made over 100 years of post-occupancy. Most noticeable in Becontree following the Right to Buy but there long before this. As a way to think of the next 100 years of a place, made up of almost 100,000 lives being lived and played out day by day. Working with residents to reconstruct fragments of customisation, as scenography and a tribute to the individual.

The exhibition emerges from a fifteen year period of returning, of close looking and developing relationships and collecting fragments of place, through photography, film and sculptural works - archived to present new taxonomies of a slice of a place at a particular time.

Timber scenographic flat, fake brick fibreglass moulded cladding, black ceramic special tiles, paint, concrete weights, 2.5 metres x 1.2 metres x 75cm depth.