Review
“Ute Meta Bauer: ... ‘Architectures of Discourse’ started through a collaborative thought-process with the American artist Fareed Armaly. In the past we co-operated on several projects as co-curators. For this project he developed an ‘Id_Entity’ that engaged in how this project could unfold in a multitude of ways to reflect artistic practice as a discipline in formation. He was communicating the other artists’ contributions through a navigation system that went beyond the display or layout of an exhibition and included as well the development of a new periodical with the title case.
Fareed Armaly translated Tapies’ rooftop sculpture into a graphic pattern that functions as a navigator, a non-linear dense structure, to reflect the way discourses intertwine statements, options and arguments and how they overlap or fold into each other. As mentioned, Fareed Armaly decided to use that pattern as a guiding system throughout all the spaces of ‘Architectures of Discourse.’ The indoor walls of the building framing the exhibition space were painted with a grey-blue wire-like graphic template based on the sculpture, while the inserted exhibition walls were painted in different colours, indicating each contribution. The exhibition space became an extension of the library, but with a different way of organising information. It functions more as an activated open-access workspace offering prefiltered material on selected and specific issues.”
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