Fugitive Structures
Located in Sydney’s trendy suburb Paddington, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation’s latest program, Fugitive Structures, fuses Old Testament stories with modern day concerns over housing affordability. Now in its third iteration, the series continues with Sway, an audacious ecological structure inspired by Israel’s use of scientifically calibrated fabric greenhouses which make possible the growing of fruit and vegetables in a predominantly arid landscape.
Sway will fill the gallery’s Zen Garden and has been created by Tel Aviv-based architectural collective Sack and Reicher + Muller with fabric expert Eyal Zur (SRMZ).
Dr Gene Sherman, executive director of SCAF said, “The human need for shelter is an ever increasing problem both locally and globally along with the need for food and water… Innovation and imagination are needed to confront problems that global citizens now face directly or indirectly.”
Sydney-based cross-disciplinary artists Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen will present a newly commissioned architectural installation, Owner Occupy, within SCAF’s gallery. The installation invites audience participation with five interactive shelters able to be reconfigured as temporary dwellings, suggesting in the process, a possible solution to housing affordability and to the real estate market’s control of land ownership. These ‘hand-built dwelling machines’ can be refashioned to create individual or collective shelters.
Sway runs 21 August–12 December
Owner Occupy runs 21 August–3 October
Sack and Reicher + Muller with Eyal Zur: Sway, 2015
Aluminium, HDPE, Polyester
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
Photo: Silversalt Photography
Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen: Owner Occupy, 2015
Timber dowel, Downee pipe fixings, copper saddles, cotton duck fabric
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
Photo: Silversalt Photography
R U OK? is urging tradies to ask the question any day, not just during Tradie National Health ...
London-based practice DF_DC has designed a shallow, concrete-framed addition for a Primrose Hill property, combining expansive glazing with ...
Australian studio Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has transformed a 19th-century North Fitzroy terrace, adding two striking brick ...
Standards Australia has met with Parliament House in Canberra to address access to Australian standards. They identified accessibility ...
Charter Hall’s proposed $925-million skyscraper at 201 Elizabeth Street has secured crucial backing from the City of Sydney’s ...