Mareike Lee  |  makeshift
March 5 - 31, 01

If there is to be a 'new urbanism' it will not be based on the twin phantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential."
-Rem Koolhaas

Playing in between comfort and instability, Mareike Lee's installation makeshift explores ways in which space isn't structured.

She assembles well-travelled discards and packaging materials amassed from different climates into transient formations, considering the flotsam of the materials and the jetsam of the cultures discarding them. These materials were re-formed and shaped to interact directly with walls, corners, and floors, testing our physicality in relation to these spaces.

As though originating in the Closet Gallery and growing, expanding or spreading throughout the newly renovated Skylight Gallery area beyond, the packing-material sculptures took on a life of their own, taped in a seemingly halphazard but actually highly orchestrated method to the walls. Ten sculptures of various sizes sat on wheels, giving an even more fluid and animated feel to the exhibition as they were moved and shifted by visitors. Sometimes, due to irregularities of the floor, the more lightweight wheeled sculptures would move about on their own.

The colours of some of the plastic lent a slight bubble-gum, candy-wrapper feel to the installation by provided intervals of hot colour amidst overall muted hues of green, white and grey. The colours, patterns and shapes combine to reference the foundations of the grid and order but also highlight its falibilities and real-life imperfections.