Huneck, K., Truempler, B., 2017.

Un-veiled

Un-veiled (osa/KHBT)
Installation at Mann Building in Liverpool 2017 (budget of £15,000.)

Un-veiled was commissioned by RIBA North. Together with the project Inside Cities (both part of one subsequent portfolio) they utilise the same method of experimentation with space and materials that my practice has explored over the past 20 years. It deliberately crosses the boundaries of art and architecture. osa is internationally regarded as one of the pioneers for these experimental interventions.

Un-veiled has been the pivotal piece in this family of projects attracting more than 400,000 visitors.
Un- veiled was an insertion into an existing spatial volume, the large Atrium Space of the Mann building which is eclectic, banal and aesthetically unpleasant.
It spatially interpreted the purpose of the new national architecture centre exploring the notion of construction processes symbolised by the red mesh fabric that is used to cover scaffolding on building sites until it unveils the finished building. Hundreds of large panels filled the existing space before cavernous volumes in the shape of typical iconic buildings of the North had been cut out. Scale negatives of these buildings wafted in and out of focus as visitors walked through, beyond and within.

Un-veiled utilised my practices method to "neutralise" existing conditions before inserting an unknown and unexpected immersive world where the visitor is drawn into in order to embark on an emotional spatial journey that creates a personal experience, an "inhabitable fiction". The visitor gets physically absorbed into the space and literally became part of a spatial narrative. Using common utilitarian materials such as textiles or plastics taken out of another context is a deliberate move in order to create a familiarity that makes the work easily accessible.

The installation has been widely published nationally and internationally in magazines such as Domus, Wallpaper Magazine.