Langlands & Bell

J'ai fait une recherche sur les images que tu avais remarqué dans le livre de Gillick Techniques Anglaises, le travail est assez intéressant dans le sens où il se positionne politiquement et par rapport à l'architecture (qui est leur domaine d'intervention).

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The Ministry   2002

Woven wool carpet

340 x 340cm

The Ministry is putting the viewer in a new position. It allows you to walk around it and as you do so your relationship to it continually changes. You ask yourself: is it a picture, or is it carpet? is it a photo of a building, or is it a geometric design? is it an optical experience, or a tactile experience? is it primarily a usable object? or is it mainly there to contemplate? The answer is that it can be any or all of them: what it is, is shifting the whole time. It has a multiple focus, yet it’s purpose is art, and it prompts us to question how we can make or find art in life.

Maisons de Force   1991

Narrenturm, Vienna

Architecture(s), capc Musee, Bordeaux, France, 1995

Wood, glass, paint, cellulose lacquer

7 items: 92 x 42 x 45cm each. 92 x 800 x 45cm overall

The chair mediates between the body and the building and the arrangement of furniture within a room reflects evidence of the relationships between people using the space: witness a parliament, a court room, a school room, or a prison.

Seven white chairs containing models of seven prisons from Europe and north America. The plans of the prisons are cast as shadows on the floor, calling to mind the way we become imprinted with buildings as we use them.

One of the main functions of architecture is to contain and direct social activity. The prison is the place where containment and order are achieved with more emphasis than anywhere else. In some senses the prison may operate as a metaphor for the social function of architecture.