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Infinity of Intimate Space Exhibition

Trinity Bellwoods Community Centre Toronto, ON

Villa Savoye Case Study

12 Hours Installation

Animating the Void Installation

Interested in how our spaces create and hold meaning, my call for submissions was centred on the poetics of space. The resulting exhibition, Infinity of Intimate Space, features four emerging artists whose works explore space through mem-ories and dreams. From the intimacy of our houses, to deso-late landscapes and brimming cities, to the deconstruction of digital forms, what reveries do we explore within the spaces we immerse ourselves in?Infinity of Intimate Space

Images: InterAccess (TO); photographer: Natalie Logan, 2016

Image: Venessa Heddle, still from Funeral Wells (19:33 min digital video) shot with a Mobius Action cam affixed to a CNC router.

Image: Venessa Heddle, still from Funeral Wells (19:33 min digital video) shot with a Mobius Action cam affixed to a CNC router.

Interested in how modules interact with one another and what the gaps in between modules do to activate space, the community centre I proposed for Trinity Bellwoods Park uses punctures to frame the environment, the architecture and oth-er frames.

Trinity Bellwoods Community Centre

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Second FloorEast Elevation

West Elevation First Floor

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North Elevation North Section

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My analysis of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye is a sequential visual experience throughout as one approaches and then climbs through the house. I created art objects to represent the concept of framing, that Villa Savoye does so well. By creating these objects I invented viewing devices that can physically be used to see the framed view.

Villa Savoye: Case Study

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LIVING ROOM

KITCHEN

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BEDROOM

TOILET

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MASTER BEDROOM

PRIVATE SITTING ROOM

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KITCHEN

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TOILET

BEDROOM

MASTER BEDROOM

PRIVATE SITTING ROOM

HANGING GARDEN

BATH

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I brought 36 hours of the rapidly moving, always awake, loud, and sublime streets of Toronto into a video installation lasting only a few minutes. The site I chose was College and Univer-sity Ave. This space is always awake as there are hospitals, educational facilities, parks, and the subway system nearby.

12 Hours: An Installation

Similar to reading between the lines and inducing as well as deducing meaning to and from the text, when we exert our bodies through a space we give meaning to architecture. When the architects built the spaces I show in the video se-ries, they had in mind how one would move in them. However, I break the rule by moving through them however I want, thus, giving the architecture a new meaning. Meaning in architec-ture is created by the body’s movement in relation to it.

Animating the Void: An Installation