2024
A - THB - 0102
Exhibition / Architecture
Exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, 2024, in "The Temporalisation of Space, and the Spatialisation of Time"\\
Darkness, a poem by Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), 1816.
"They slept on the abyss without a surge—
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expired before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perished; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe."
The drawing envisions architecture as a vessel—an ongoing construction project anchored in mortality. The “house above” is rendered not as sanctuary, but rather a gravestone: a silent monolith marked by a cross, its presence hovering at the threshold between surface and depth, above and below, life and death. This upper structure—clean, minimal, emblematic—sits like a monument to the living, masking the excavation that lies beneath.
Below, a darker architecture unfolds—chaotic, sedimented, and unresolved. It is the house below that has been under construction across the span of a life, built unconsciously through memory, trauma, and myth. This is a dwelling not for the living, but for the dead; an underworld home awaiting its occupant. In this speculative cross-section through ground and psyche, architectural drawing becomes an autopsy: mapping fracture lines, blurred traces, and spatial misalignments that suggest a deeper narrative at work.
This ‘house’ is not a physical space, but a metaphor for everything that accumulates beneath the surface of a life—memories, forgotten dreams, regrets, and unconscious desires...