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The Rules of a Room.
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Stored in: Articles
Posted On: September 15 2006
By: Bryan Partington
Photo © Lú_
Stephanie Fysh's [Lú_'s] article, Woman With Rooms begins with a near complete dissolution of the physical, re-emerging into the seemingly steadfast stability of the architectural realm...
One day last December, as I was walking through my living room, the walls around me and the floor under my feet and the ceiling above my head and all the furnishings began to fade, became insubstantial and very nearly disappeared. I had to use a doorframe to hold myself up -- and to show myself that this was an illusion: that the walls and floor and ceiling and furnishings that defined that room, that held me in, were actually still there. That moment eventually developed into the photo series Rooms With Woman.
Constraint breeds creativity. This is to say that language founded on the basis of an agreed framework, a shifty consensus that forms the bedrock of interpretation. The most fundamental aspect of this agreed framework is the physical world that surrounds us, and the most powerful force in altering the nature of consensus reality is that of architecture and design. Forces that bleed into and shape us almost subconsciously.
When I first started to actually plan the series, I didn’t write anything down. Instead, in my head, I kept listed all the many elements that would make up the series. The rooms would be familiar rooms, rooms common to all homes, stripped of my personal life. The “scenes” would involve touching and not touching, and would violate the rules of a room.
In the series that inspired the article, Lú_ takes the unrelenting consistency of architecture and playfully subverts it. While the rooms are unchanging, fixed compositions, she is constantly changing. Moving about the static, tripod fixed geometric spaces. Changing ... literally ... in and out of clothes, in and out of moods. Shifting from the expressionless to the domestic to the erotic.
Rules are meant to be broken, even the rules of a room.
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- Previously: Semi-Duplicitous Design
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