The twin artists Mike and Doug Starn created a monumental bamboo structure on the terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a perpetual work-in-progress that evolved over a six-month period. For more information go here.
The Green room by Cassanova+Hernandez is a series of temporary installations that transforms an anonymous area of the public space of the city into an open room for citizens. More info here
Kaleidoscope is a term derived from the Ancient Greek: kalos meaning “beauty”,eidos, which is form andskopeō, “to look to, to examine” hence “observation of beautiful forms”.
In this serie I play with ordinary scenes where a mere mirror invites to enter different realities. It also questions the limits between public and private spheres: the mirror, an element traditionally belonging to an intimate space- such as the bathroom- is placed outdoors.
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On the top of hill covered with grass, five white sofas are floating in the air. Viewers find them from under the hill and walk up. Each sofas have ladder or stairs to reach to the seat. And viewers can sit down on the sofas and realize beautiful landscape and sky in front of them. This is the sofa to sit into the sky. More here
Quadratura uses video projection on architecture to extend the main axis of the room and expand the limits of physical space. The project is based on a technique used in the baroque. More info here.
Animalia looks at how we may begin to genetically alter the design of corals seeded in areas where tsunames might hit. More info here
Inspired by the Weather Modification Office in China, Caelum creates a hypothetical sandbox testing facility in Mali, where a completely artificial climate with complex wind manipulation, sunlight control, rain seeding, and weather-based biodiversity experimentation is set up. More info here
Time Tilings is about time, space and perception. Pablo Valbuena explores the overlap of the physical and the virtual, the generation of mental spaces by the observer, the dissolution of the boundaries between real and perceived, the links between space and time and the use of light as prime matter. More info here
