"From my studio in London, I started thinking of ways to remove the steps and merge these rooms without knocking down any walls, the opposite of house-makeover reality TV's obsession with creating "open plan areas." At the same time, I took pleasure in thinking of a sculpture that could overflow a room and not be contained by its limits. I started to draw ramps across the floor plan, following the 1:12 rule,"
"It was important to me that the ramps were made using repurposed material, including waste from other shows at Culturgest: We included parts of MDF walls taken down during the installation of Alexandra Bircken's exhibition, which the team was installing simultaneously in the space next door. It was a way to underline how things are materially interconnected, how my show isn't floating in a vacuum."
The Culturgest exhibition space is a U-shaped series of rooms on a large ramp with varying floor levels connected by small steps, creating the sensation of a giant staircase. Design interventions introduced ramps across the floor plan following the 1:12 rule to make inclinations usable for wheelchair users and most people. Ramps reorganized the space into interlocking fragments and altered room levels without removing walls. Construction used repurposed materials, including MDF panels salvaged from a neighboring exhibition, to emphasize material interconnectedness and the afterlife of building components. Collaboration with the ramp-building team informed practical implementation.
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