Video: Sleep, my joy: "Lullaby Factory" installation by Studio Weave
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Make some cosmetic changes to the dull industrial landscape and it will sing out of the blue. This is the opinion of the artists from the collective Studio weavewho turned the facade of a London factory - a brick wall on which pipes are piled - into an almost implausible musical instrument.
Installation design entitled Lullaby Factory, designed by artists Maria Smith and Je Ahn … When creating an art object available for everyone to see, they were guided not only by the need for self-promotion - on the contrary, Studio Weave had the most noble motives. After all, the factory, which by their efforts began to produce lullabies, is located across the street from the children's hospital. Great ormond.
The Studio Weave project is not destructive at all. The artists were not puzzled to hide the ugly (from the generally accepted point of view) facade of the factory, but, on the contrary, to profitably "highlight" the best aspects of its industrial design. "We wanted to transform the façade into an improved version of ourselves, giving credit to its quality and originality. It would be too difficult to hide all these pipes, we tried to create something unique, relying on them as a basis," - explains the representatives of Studio Weave.
"Factory of lullabies" with a height of a ten-story building not only amazes the imagination with its appearance - it resembles a hybrid of ivy with an old gramophone - but also works like a real musical instrument. The Studio Weave artists liked the sound of the humming trumpets of the London factory - "soft as a lullaby"; but until recently it was not easy to hear him. Through the efforts of the creators of the installation, the patients of the children's hospital or just bystanders can now listen to industrial melodies for the coming sleep with the help of special horns reminiscent of gramophone.
It seems that you just have to walk along the streets of the British capital - and already, as it were, visited a museum of modern art: you can remember christmas tree made of elastic cord, installation "Cover the city with moss" and many other art objects. Studio Weave was not the first in its quest to transform London streets, but the creative daring and humanistic message of their project makes it unique in its own way.
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