Category: art

installation \ 2011concrete, industrial shelving, angle iron, rebar, construction adhesive, plywood, styrofoam, Douglas fir, found blueback paper \ dimesions variable The installation I Can’t See comprises a heavy and precarious-looking composition of concrete, metal and wood, counterbalanced by a flag-like strip of blue billboard paper on the adjacent wall. Its strange, seemingly haphazard construction evidences…

Performance drawing \ 2011two-channel HD video, 33:25 This performance, documented in the form of a dual-channel video, explores the relationships and analogies between the embodied, temporal act of drawing, and the conceptualization of architectural space as a temporally unfolding entity. As the philosopher and architectural theorist Nader El-Bizri argues, the formal totality of architectural spaces…

series of five wall reliefs \ 2010-2011wood and metallic vinyl, dimensions variable Creative Suite is a series of wall sculptures of geometric shapes that hover between line drawing and 3-dimensional structure. Through the playful juxtaposition of the wood frame with curling metallic vinyl, the shapes resemble mind tricks of irresolvable spatial configurations, but also allude…

installation \ 2011concrete, plywood, painted doorskin, fasteners \ dimensions variable This process-based installation consists of the rearranged elements previously used for casting two triangular concrete shapes. A precariously balanced structure—comprising of two conical concrete elements accidentally adhered to one of the plywood sheets used for the mould—is off-set by the slightly bent piece of red…

installation \ 2011red cedar, concrete, wire mesh, metal strip, nail, plexi glass mirror \ approx. 1 x 1 x 10′ This sculptural installation is part of an investigation into a process-based approach towards assemblage, incorporating chance and found objects, as well as blurring functional and decorative elements.

…What Is to Be Considered? installation \ 2010drywall, wood, fasteners \ dimension approx. 16 x 16 x 2′ Developed during an exchange of visits between an installation art studio course at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF, Canada’s National Research Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Who Is to Be…

handmade book \ 2010150 black-and-white pages, colour cover \ 8.5 x 14″ In this book project, text-fragments from the graphic designer Bruce Mau’s book and exhibition ‘Massive Change’ are juxtaposed with digitally rendered structures that resemble advertising billboards. Claiming, among other things, that “Massive Change is not about the world of design; it is about…

installation \ 2010wood, fasteners, variable dimensions; series of inkjet prints 17 x 21″ This body of work evolved from a process of sketching—by hand and digitally—structures resembling advertising billboards, into the construction of frame-like structures from wood. These different elements probe the gap between the “infinite” possibilities enabled by digital design and the limitations imposed…

series of inkjet prints, 14 x 21″ \ 2010 Building into the Blue is a series of photographs taken in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary of roadside billboards covered with blueback paper. Used on billboards to ensure complete opacity over previous layers, the blue-coated paper is presumably applied in reverse to cover up vacant advertising…

site-specific installation, W2 Media Arts, Vancouver \ 2010two-channel video projection on backlit transparency This Is Your Neighbourhood was a site-specific installation located across the Woodward’s Building in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It was featured in “For the Moment,” an exhibition that focused on the interaction between politically-oriented artistic practices with play- and process-based methodologies. An animated…