Experimental Teahouse Installation by Eugene Soler (AAIS 2010), part of London Architecture Festival 2012, opening Thursday 5 July 19.00

The installation is titled Fragile Tension and will be at the Teasmith Gallery in Spitalfields (6 Lamb Street London E1 6EA). The installation, which will be up until 4 August, is a two tatami size tea room (ni-jo). It utilises unconventional materials made from approximately 2000 pieces of 2mm bamboo rods and Vietnamese rice paper rolls as cladding.

The installation questions the validity of mass, matter and form making in architecture and challenges cosy assumptions towards objectification and aestheticisation. The employment of fragile materials creates tension within such metaphysical elements as light, wind, temperature, gravity and time which strives to evoke a deeper awareness of the relationship between the body and its surroundings.

Date Submitted: 21/6/2012

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