Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 day agoGelato Messina Glenelg / Sans-Arc Studio
Gelato Messina Glenelg creates a public, generous social interior shaped by nostalgia, collective memory, and summer rituals through bold architectural strategy.
From swathes of her own paintings to pieces of reclaimed or recycled fabrics or found canvases, as well as sourcing her own pigments and dyes from nature, Young carefully crops and sews together otherwise seemingly disparate materials into wholly new compositions. Set into natural wood frames, the material nature of Young's work illuminates her longstanding exploration of environmentalism. The climate impact of creative practices is often overlooked and left uninterrogated, but for Young it is situated at the heart of her practice.
Reading this description, my eyes hung on the charged word "rubble." I learned from White Bird's Executive Director Graham Cole during his curtain speech that I could expect this story to relate to themes of nostalgia and relationship - an interpersonal and psychological "rubble" of sorts, albeit with contemporary geopolitical connotations of war, genocide, and displacement that I found hard to shake.