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The architect Evan Douglis teaches and runs the
exhibition spaces at the Arthur Ross architecture
Gallery at Columbia University in New York. His
interactive installations for exhibitions endeavour
to surmount the traditional dichotomy between
exhibition space and works exhibited. In his installations
and exhibitions, Evan Douglis explores
this exchange and tries to produce a “mutant
body” in the aim of becoming both his own exhibition
and a critical commentary on the distancing
of objects in the information age. Let us mention,
by way of example, his project Auto Braids/Auto
Breeding exhibited in October 2003 at the group
show Sign as Surface at the Artists’ Space in
New York. Auto Braids/Auto Breeding developed
around a membrane created by the use of different
mathematical and digital tools: between
Cartesian grid, digital systems and curved forms.
This membrane was above all a relational surface
without any particular scale, and not an autonomous
system. It had no basic identity and preferred
to retain its nomadic character both in its
form (it can be moved and rebuilt in different
ways) and in its meaning. This surface punctuated
by turquoise waves and eyes was used as
a scenographic medium at the exhibition Jean
Prouvé, Three Nomadic Structures at the Arthur
Ross Gallery at Columbia Universty in 2004.
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