Cabinet of Subconscious
Exhibited in Emergent Architect Selection & Exhibiton at the Circle, Istanbul
https://thecircle-o.com/gemss23#selectees
“An appropriate expansion of the temporality of architecture beyond the built work - the space in which we can walk- includes the representation of architecture, its exhibition, archiving, and its dissemination. Proposing an extended notion of time within and surrounding architecture broadens the context within which architecture exists.”
Marien Macken, Passage, ‘Reading John Hejduk’s Wall House 2’
The Cabinet of Subconscious serves both as an artifact and an exhibition, bringing together the various times of the "And Then Architecture Falls Asleep" project. It aspires to demonstrate itself as the present moment simultaneously filled with the past and future through intersecting project’s various temporalities.
The cabinet contains an archive of images and reflections from the subconscious that virtually infiltrate the work, altering and guiding it during the process of creation. The exhibited chains of representation settle onto the four sides of the cabinet without hierarchy or order, allowing the audience to enter at different points and enabling them to engage in their own interactions to make new interpretations of the project.
In this way, the cabinet presents the inherent temporality of the making -the remnants of memory and recollections- and aims to expand the present state of the project through past reflections and future projections. Constructed as a spatial document, the cabinet seeks ways to be not an end point within this framework but rather a point within continuity.
