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New York, NY, United States
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Other Projects by Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects
CAMERA OBSCURA ICFF
New York, NY, United States
YEAR
2009
The
Object of Desire explores the manipulation of space by adding a foreign
structure to a retail boutique specifically designed to blur boundaries between
public and private. This installation continues and expands upon Stephan
Jaklitsch’s exploration of certain themes in relation to the architecture of the
original space for Shelly Steffee– including our perception of vision, desire,
commodification and their relationships to fashion.
The
original layout of the store, designed by Stephan Jaklitsch Architects in 2001,
was intended to draw customers into the space through a large pivoting window
frame, the forced perspective of inserted partitions, and the allure of a space
beyond what is visible from the street. The store is organized as a series of
thresholds that shift geometrically and materially as public space layers back
toward the womb-like central space and the shielded intimacy of the fitting
rooms. Steel, glass and industrial elements near the street give way to the
curved plaster walls, a shear veiling curtain, and the soft leather wall of the
fitting rooms.
The
Object, an installation in the form of a camera obscura, intrudes and encroaches
upon this layered subtlety, rudely interrupting a carefully planned sequence of
spaces and creating tension between old and new. Playing upon the viewer’s
curiosity and expectations, the Looking Device is transformed through its
materiality and by the positioning of the viewer outside of the device,
effectively blocking the light that would be admitted to the camera obscura to
create an image when the viewer peers inside. Thus, the image that would be seen
by peering inside the device disappears the moment someone tries to do so.
That
missing image and its replacement are a conceptual compression
of the spaces that are layered from the street to the dressing area, blurring boundaries
between public and private.
Object of Desire explores the manipulation of space by adding a foreign
structure to a retail boutique specifically designed to blur boundaries between
public and private. This installation continues and expands upon Stephan
Jaklitsch’s exploration of certain themes in relation to the architecture of the
original space for Shelly Steffee– including our perception of vision, desire,
commodification and their relationships to fashion.
The
original layout of the store, designed by Stephan Jaklitsch Architects in 2001,
was intended to draw customers into the space through a large pivoting window
frame, the forced perspective of inserted partitions, and the allure of a space
beyond what is visible from the street. The store is organized as a series of
thresholds that shift geometrically and materially as public space layers back
toward the womb-like central space and the shielded intimacy of the fitting
rooms. Steel, glass and industrial elements near the street give way to the
curved plaster walls, a shear veiling curtain, and the soft leather wall of the
fitting rooms.
The
Object, an installation in the form of a camera obscura, intrudes and encroaches
upon this layered subtlety, rudely interrupting a carefully planned sequence of
spaces and creating tension between old and new. Playing upon the viewer’s
curiosity and expectations, the Looking Device is transformed through its
materiality and by the positioning of the viewer outside of the device,
effectively blocking the light that would be admitted to the camera obscura to
create an image when the viewer peers inside. Thus, the image that would be seen
by peering inside the device disappears the moment someone tries to do so.
That
missing image and its replacement are a conceptual compression
of the spaces that are layered from the street to the dressing area, blurring boundaries
between public and private.
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