Venice Biennale 2016
Can people engage with the complexities of architectural drawing?
Venice, Italy
Completed 2016
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As architects, our daily practice involves the creation of personal geographies through drawing exercises. In this exhibit at the Venice Biennale in 2016, we selected drawings from our book, CAZA: 2010-2016, to act as an interface with the visitor.
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The visitor enters the room and gazes at a screen equipped with a camera that captures the movements of their face. The twist is that the screen does not project a perfect mirror image of their face, but instead displays a drawing animated by their movement. Every facial gesture engenders a physical change in the drawing on the screen—the visitor sees their face transcribed as a form they don’t recognize, yet paradoxically control.
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Each drawing used as a facial mask was developed during the execution of an architecture project that is currently under construction.
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- PROJECT TEAM: Carlos Arnaiz, Laura del Pino, Jun Deng
- CLIENT: Robby Kraft