Face-to-Face

Bust, Group Exhibition

Jai & Jai Gallery

Los Angeles, California

2015

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As an invitation to participate in a group exhibition titled Bust, we were asked to explore the architectural façade through the framework of a classical bust. Unlike a classical bust where the form is carved through a subtractive process, resulting in a solid monolith, Face-to-Face is an object in-between 2D and 3D, on the verge of a cumulative formation. Six façade plaques are placed equidistant from one another with two embellished ends. This rigid alignment and face-to-face arrangement is intended to counter a privileged viewpoint of the object, mediating its orientation.The project reinterprets the formal logic of a monolithic bust by replacing subtraction with absence, frontality with seriality and symmetry with mirrored image. In addition,this project embraces“likeness”as opposed to replication through the interplay of a house-like silhouette,confection-like details and a swatch-like gradient of vivid stucco colors.

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Designers:  Jackilin Hah Bloom, Florencia Pita

Team: Charmaine Lam, Sandra Sanchez

Curated by: William O’Brien Jr.