The Sky in a Room
domestic landscape and synthetic fine arts
Exhibition | Foyer Archizoom, SG 294.22 | Curated by Filippo Fanciotti | 20.112023 - 8.12.2023
Content
The exhibition, curated by Filippo Fanciotti, displays the re-edited studies carried out by the LAPIS Laboratory between 2016 and 2023 in a series of allegorical diptychs laid out in thematic rooms. The left panel is a Reconstruction of the original painting questioning the true essence of the reality represented, exposing perspective corrections, omissions or other choices made by painters to bend all physical and optical phenomena to their own advantage in order to fine-tune their visual narratives. The right panel is a Deconstruction work which in conversation with the Reconstruction, performs variations on the technical elements that characterize it.
Exploring the relationship between interiors and exteriors, LAPIS discourse takes on the Baconian paradigm that knowledge passes through representation by converting the architectural envelope into a scenic machine. A device that questions the domestic, the everyday, the banal, and addresses the narrative role assumed by spatial sequences.
The unprecedented vision that emerges from the images in the exhibition, finally deprived of human presence, offers architecture the opportunity to laconically speak about itself as the narrator and main protagonist, laying itself bare in all its beautiful ordinariness and reaffirming its presence to a public that had mostly ignored it.
The exhibition, curated by Filippo Fanciotti, displays the re-edited studies carried out by the LAPIS Laboratory between 2016 and 2023 in a series of allegorical diptychs laid out in thematic rooms. The left panel is a Reconstruction of the original painting questioning the true essence of the reality represented, exposing perspective corrections, omissions or other choices made by painters to bend all physical and optical phenomena to their own advantage in order to fine-tune their visual narratives. The right panel is a Deconstruction work which in conversation with the Reconstruction, performs variations on the technical elements that characterize it.
Exploring the relationship between interiors and exteriors, LAPIS discourse takes on the Baconian paradigm that knowledge passes through representation by converting the architectural envelope into a scenic machine. A device that questions the domestic, the everyday, the banal, and addresses the narrative role assumed by spatial sequences.
The unprecedented vision that emerges from the images in the exhibition, finally deprived of human presence, offers architecture the opportunity to laconically speak about itself as the narrator and main protagonist, laying itself bare in all its beautiful ordinariness and reaffirming its presence to a public that had mostly ignored it.
Credits
Curation Filippo Fanciotti
Curating Team Nicola Braghieri, Reda Berrada
Model Gaëtan Détraz
Contributions
Students de Figuration et Re- présentation FIRE 2017-2023
Filippo Fanciotti (images et textes)
Nicola Braghieri (textes) Olivier Meystre (images)
Thanks Anja Fröhlich, Elena Cogato Lanza, Philipp Schaerer, Pier Vittorio Aureli EPFL - SAR Archizoom Mediacom, SAVE EPFL
Teaching Team Adrien Gendre, Bérénice Pinon, Emma Larcelet, Emy Amstein Filippo Cattapan Jana Kostantinova Laura Trazic Laurent Chassot Marion Vuachet Olivier Meystre Patrick Giromini Sybille Kössler Vasileios Chanis Zoé Laubeuf
Translations Reda Berrada
Proofreading Emma Larcelet, Reda Berrada
Graphic Design Filippo Fanciotti (graphics) Reda Berrada (editing, layout)
Printing Reprographie EPFL
Curation Filippo Fanciotti
Curating Team Nicola Braghieri, Reda Berrada
Model Gaëtan Détraz
Contributions
Students de Figuration et Re- présentation FIRE 2017-2023
Filippo Fanciotti (images et textes)
Nicola Braghieri (textes) Olivier Meystre (images)
Thanks Anja Fröhlich, Elena Cogato Lanza, Philipp Schaerer, Pier Vittorio Aureli EPFL - SAR Archizoom Mediacom, SAVE EPFL
Teaching Team Adrien Gendre, Bérénice Pinon, Emma Larcelet, Emy Amstein Filippo Cattapan Jana Kostantinova Laura Trazic Laurent Chassot Marion Vuachet Olivier Meystre Patrick Giromini Sybille Kössler Vasileios Chanis Zoé Laubeuf
Translations Reda Berrada
Proofreading Emma Larcelet, Reda Berrada
Graphic Design Filippo Fanciotti (graphics) Reda Berrada (editing, layout)
Printing Reprographie EPFL
