Postludes

Year: 2020

Status: Paper work exhibitied at Betts Project, London, United Kingdom

Photo Credit: Betts Project and manthey kula

The exhibition Postludes takes its title from the last and conclusive element one might add to a construction, and draws attention to the nature and post-potential of architectural drawing.

The works found in Postludes operate as creative endeavour to afix a new and conclusive stage to a design process. Each work departs from one of manthey kula’s ongoing or completed projects from the last ten years. Instead of facilitating a schematic representaiton of the project, this new stage takes a more expressive exploration into form and architecture. The variously coloured papers are delicately cut, juxtaposed and layered, creating motives that deviate from their original plans yet hint at architectural features such as railing elements, gutter holes, ramps, elevations, walkways or columns. This process of cutting and further abstracting architectural forms and functions can be seen as methods of freeing content from their original meanings and reappointing it to new systems of architectural awareness, thereby unveiling new narratives and posing new enquiries into the possibilities of architectural drawing.