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Hide and Seek Kamil Kotarba

“A virtual world always competes with a real world. Instead of focusing on interaction with other people, we prefer to stare at a small mobile screen which constantly offers us new incentives. The incentives which we choose without any restrictions of space and time in which we are currently in. Thanks to this diversity, this form of activity seems to be far more interesting than what we are doing. Maybe it’s really more interesting? Although we are still in a real space, it seems like we aren’t there.

The real life happening around just eludes us. We are somewhere ‘in between’. We don’t bother being. We choose the lack of participation. At the same time we are online – still in touch with our friends. We hide behind mobile screens. We play hide and seek” ~  Kamil Kotarba

Telephone Book Hive by Kristiina Lahde

Canada artist Kristiina Lahde artistic philosophy is the essential aim to transform ordinary objects and materials into unconventional sculptures, which defy the laws of logic. By re-organizing their architecture, Lahde modifies their geometric identity to manipulate them into a new form. She says:

“I find the overlooked potential of envelopes, newspapers, telephone books and measuring tapes, I manipulate and de-familiarize them in ways that shift, expand, invert, or otherwise transform their internal logic.”

By exploring the means of architecture in her project the Book Hive, Lahde creates a towering paper sculpture from meticulously folded phone books. She transformed an obsolete object into a contemporary piece of art, which was showcased the Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens in Ontario. 

Beili Liu - The Mending Project, 2011

Architects and Sketches Dmitriy Pogorelov

Frank Ghery

Rem Khoolkaas

Mirrored Ziggurat , New Project from  Shirin Abedinirad

In this installation I have been inspired by the pyramidal structure of Ziggurat, a common form of temple in ancient Mesopotamia, attempting to connect earth and sky, so humans could be nearer to god.

The Mirrored Ziggurat acts as a staircase, which seeks to connect nature with human beings and to create union of ancient history and today’s world. This installation offers a transformative view of the self.

The Mirrored Ziggurat has seven levels that represent seven heavens. For me, mirrors amplify this paradise, giving light; an important mystical concept in Persian Culture, and a medium creating an optical illusion.

August 2015 / Australia / Sydney / Underbelly Arts Festi