The exhibition Transfer Linen, presents an installation of transfer paper and linen artefacts exploring the material relation between bodies and spaces through the transfer of matter from one surface to another.
Funding
None
History
ERA Category
Original Creative Work - Design/Architecture
Funding type
Self funded
Eligible major research output?
Yes
If not major research
Major Research
Research Statement
‘Transfer Linen’ adopts the Deleuzean assemblage in its understanding of architecture as a series of processes. The notion of architecture as in flux and inclusive of numerous processes has been developed through architectural publications such as: 'The Architectural Body' 2002, ‘Matter’ 2011, 'Architecture in the Space of Flows' 2012, ‘Architecture in Effect’ 2019, and is seeing a new development and relevance with the uptake of ecological thought.
‘Transfer Linen’ contributes to the ecological turn in architecture and its focus on material processes. Material interactions between spaces and the bodies and objects which occupy them are explored through volatile media (transfer paper, builder's chalk), rendering physical interactions visible, recalling Walter Benjamin's quote "To live means to leave traces" (1986). ‘Transfer Linen’ feeds into architectural theory and philosophy concerned with the post-human, more than human, process thinking and ecologies. It may be situated in relation to works such as Jorge Otero Pailos’ project ‘Ethics of Dust’ 2008-, Teresa Stoppani’s project ‘Dust-Architecture’ 2007-, and R&Sie’s ‘Dusty Relief’ 2002. Where these projects seek to render the material exchanges between body and space visible through dust, ‘Transfer Linen’ seeks to draw attention to more subtle material exchanges via the use of volatile media.
The exhibition physically tests and materialises contemporary ideas surrounding material/ matter exchange and the dilution of bodily and spatial boundaries, which within the architectural realm remain largely theoretical. The exhibition was held at QCA Webb Gallery and was well attended by practicing architects, architectural academics and artists.