*패브릭 설치물 [ Sophia Chang ] INVIVIA Gallery in Cambridge

내외부를 구분짓는 경계; 막은 건축공간의 당위성을 제공하는 주요한 인자로 여기 새롭게 구성되는 플렉서블 설치물을 통해 조명된다. 기존 건축공간 속에 설치된 패브릭 스페이스; 라이크라 패브릭은 공간의 각 접점을 연결, 스트레치 함으로써 예기치 못한 공간의 움직임을 적나라하게 남아 낸다. 아이들에게는 재미나고 신기한 놀이터이자, 어른들에게는 내외부의 밀착된 경계의 경험을 이끄는 교보재로 설치물은 제안된다.

reviewed by SJ

Suspense is a recent architectural installation by Sophia Chang at the INVIVIA Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen Sayegh (co-founder of INVIVIA) and Ingeborg Rocker (co-founder of Rocker-Lange Architects) curated and sponsored the interactive installation, an unexpected fabric space that manipulates the architectural frame to blur the boundaries between inside and outside and piques the viewers' awareness of their bodies in space.

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The softened geometries of this expansive fabric insertion frame both people and their context, while confounding the experience of interior and exterior, wall and room; hiding and revealing places to be found and explored. Upon entering the piece, both occupant and environment are estranged, creating greater awareness of one's self, one's relation to others, and relationships to one's surroundings.

The installation's curved rooms are made from Lycra fabric that is suspended between rectangular frames, which capture moments of the original context and pull them into the suspended space. Visitors occupy both sides of the frames, creating playful interaction between those enclosed within the fabric and those outside.

Looking around, the smooth fabric surface breaks open to a view of an old stone wall, a glimpse of brick, a stair, or out to the street. The re-captured everyday appears distant and other.

The installation is conceived as multiple layers of poché. The term commonly refers to the space within walls, here poché receives a more ambiguous reinterpretation: what could be understood as a wall or reminiscent space from one vantage point, becomes an inhabitable room from another. The complexity of the curved forms precludes immediate understanding of the total piece and allows for the visitor's perception of the space to shift as they continue to discover new places to sit, contemplate, walk, and watch within the gallery.

Neighbouring wall spaces are activated as people encounter each other through the fabric. The installation is an 'open work' (Umberto Eco) as it is not limited to a single reading or a predetermined range of readings but rather encourages multiple readings. With changes of light, occupation, and the flexing of the geometries, new realisations continuously become possible.

from  dezeen