Huneck, KS., Truempler, BT., 2015.

"Inside Cities: Art and the Built Environment"

Inside Cities (osa/KHBT)

Exhibition Design for Arup Associates in London 2015 (budget of ca. £10,000.)

Inside Cities was commissioned by Arup's. Together with the project Un-veiled (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.

Inside Cities was an insertion into an existing spatial volume, the unappealing Lobby Space of Arup's Headquarter.
Together with Curator Deborah Smith we juxtaposed a selection of Arup's projects for the "Art and the Built Environment Exhibition" using works by artists that relate to the theme in different ways.
A unified space became the backdrop for the pieces.
This has been done by using white string curtains that were hanging in a dense grid from the ceiling, filling the whole space with one large volume from which different spaces were freely subtracted with scissors.
This permeable volume represented the city in its entirety and the artefacts within acting as examples of the complexity of our build environment today. The location of each subtracted volume created a narrative that knitted the topic of the works together, an inverse space's that could be inhabited and physically explored. Made of a permeable material it had to be touched and moved in order to get to another space which made the relationship between visitor, art work and space even more powerful.

Inside Cities utilized 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". 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.