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A Sudden Gust of Wind
A Sudden Gust of Wind
İstanbul, Turkey
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A Sudden Gust of Wind
İstanbul, Turkey
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2009
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
From 2008 on I worked on A Sudden Gust of Wind, a piece in which I tried to depict the journey of one sheet of paper swept by the wind in a room. The work was made with basic materials, i.e. legal size Xerox paper, thread, and glue, yet the combined effect of multiple sheets in space enabled this basic, yet malleable unit to transform the architectural interior through its continuous re-shaping of the negative space between the work, the viewer, and the room. Analogous to the almost littoral quality of the installation itself, the piece of paper is a structure between the abstract and the concrete. The geometric, rectilinear purity of a single sheet is somehow subsumed by its everyday function. A Sudden Gust of Wind plays on this double nature of the generic, recovering the abstraction of the sheet only to render it material and spatial by curving and shaping the nearly two-dimensional plane into something with more figural qualities. In the proliferation of sheets within the space of the room, the abstraction of the paper is then re-asserted on another register. The work oscillates between the abstract stability of the whole as achieved through an engagement with the material properties of the parts, and a formal concreteness of the whole as derived from abstraction at the level of the individual sheet.
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