Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2008
Fragment was a small architectural structure originally intended to be placed in urban space in Hiroshima, Japan.
It was designed specifically to resist easy understanding and interpretation as to its intended purpose and mode of use. A strange and foreign space, filled with seemingly random volumes and holes. In it, the distinctions between architecture and furniture, doors and windows, roof, walls and ceiling could not be clearly drawn.
And yet Fragment was a structure that presented itself rather clearly as a space to be entered and used. The gap it attempted to open in the functionality of urban fabric called itself to be filled, in the way of a puzzle. What uses could the structure trigger? How would it be appropriated?
Inside Fragment one would find a clue, or perhaps a decoy. A fragment of a vehicle, the result of a traffic accident, found by the side of a road while walking around Hiroshima, was displayed inside a vitrine, presented as a museum artifact.
Fragment was produced for the exhibition "Shelter/Survival" curated by Takeshi Matsuoka.
Fragment was a small architectural structure originally intended to be placed in urban space in Hiroshima, Japan.
It was designed specifically to resist easy understanding and interpretation as to its intended purpose and mode of use. A strange and foreign space, filled with seemingly random volumes and holes. In it, the distinctions between architecture and furniture, doors and windows, roof, walls and ceiling could not be clearly drawn.
And yet Fragment was a structure that presented itself rather clearly as a space to be entered and used. The gap it attempted to open in the functionality of urban fabric called itself to be filled, in the way of a puzzle. What uses could the structure trigger? How would it be appropriated?
Inside Fragment one would find a clue, or perhaps a decoy. A fragment of a vehicle, the result of a traffic accident, found by the side of a road while walking around Hiroshima, was displayed inside a vitrine, presented as a museum artifact.
Fragment was produced for the exhibition "Shelter/Survival" curated by Takeshi Matsuoka.
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