“Sometimes I find the empty void that expands between materials most poetic and the shadows that fall onto a naked surface most mesmerising.”
Bare walls, empty room by Dino Chai is a series of six architectural interventions within the S/F space in Eden Terrace, Auckland (14 July – 18 August 2012). Realised one per week, every Saturday for six consecutive weeks, Bare walls, empty room explores the poetics of architectural space. Each installation is accompanied by a short text written by Chai.
#1
“For a start, here are some notes about the place: the light is soft; reflections of steel-framed glass panels are scattered onto a brick wall across the open hallway. Clouds come past; the sky starts to dribble; dark shadows vanish into lighter shadows, they are pale and blue. Then a passage about a distant place comes to mind, all in a sudden moment of sadness; perhaps it is because I know all the things of which I am certain are all the things of which I do not know how to tell. Then clouds come past; it starts to rain; shadows vanish into shadows, pale and blue. It is winter.”
Images by Asumi Mizuo
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Dino Chai completed a MArch(Prof) at The University of Auckland in 2011. His project 100 Rooms of Solitude was the student grand prize winner at the 2011 AAA Cavalier Bremworth Unbuilt Architecture Awards.
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Curated by onne terre and Layla Tweedie-Cullen with Nat Cheshire, Chai’s Bare walls, empty room attempts to exhibit architecture in a new format and promote discourse around the work of emerging architects in New Zealand.
A publication documenting the installation series will be published by S/F later in 2012.
Bare walls, empty room is made possible with the generous support of New Zealand Steel and BLOCK Foundation, Auckland.
