Proscenium

A finalist competition entry for the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, where museum artifacts are viewed as windows, and a pristine mirror reads as a dead pixel across a blurred surface in daylight, studied in 2020

Proscenium is an architecture museum in Boston’s Copley Square, a place of display and on display. The museum is a collection of spaces that have been flattened, shrunken and de-contextualized as architectural artifacts. They are props that choreograph the mise en scène on an urban stage. A large gridded, glazed surface extends beyond the building as a proscenium. A black box levitates inside as the seemingly endless, nebulous backstage. Exhibition displays use windows as mechanisms to expand the interface between viewer and subject, of works largely known through digital screens. Models rest within niches, while drawings and imagery are placed along thin punctured walls, which reduce depth and enact spatial flattening. The urban context is exposed on the roof terrace where visitors may occupy and touch the screen itself.

See related work Double Exposure.

______

Image Credit: Abigail Chang

Recognition: Awarded Competition Finalist