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Beijing Tripod
Beijing
24 May to 22 June 2008
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BEIJING TRIPOD Tripods face each other across the floor suggesting an invisible geometry of space. They split the room into sectors of behind-between-beyond (before-during-after). The tripods are simple markers, their aura can charge the room with the magnetic tension of the object present: Seen metaphorically, they can be the scale models for a city of the future, a city of towers five hundred meters tall, one half of the space given to urban parks, a human density twice that of Hong Kong with the air full of blue triangular light. Seen objectively, they are six-meter-tall, one-and-a-half-millimeter-thick, steel lattice tripods, their surface formed by strips of three centimeters placed every twelve centimeters. The tripods have a footprint of thirty-four centimeters by thirty-four centimeters, two arms or legs rising at thirty degrees from the vertical, one to four meters seventy centimeters and the other to three meters twenty centimeters. Exhibited at the Median Gallery, Haidian District in Beijing, People's Republic of China, a collaboration with Werner Sobek Engineers and David Karlin |