We received this curious suggestion from the Spanish Vav Architects (Pablo Bolinches, Darragh Breathnach, Daria Leikina) about their installation “Mirror lab” recently completed in Olot, Spain. The project remind us someway a work we have featured before by artist Ratna Khanna. In it we feel the growing need for a dialogue with landscape and nature, expressed here through a combination of set design and photography.
«The idea of exploring the mirror for the installation has grown from the desire to capture, explore and experiment with the landscape, rather than the built form. The project itself is not important on it’s own, as much as is its relationship with the site. The mirror lab is merely a tool to explore and capture the views of the existing and by doing so it becomes invisible, completely dissolving into the landscape. A simple insertion into the bridge, solely supported by the two points, mirror lab adds a new dimension to the site, both inside the arc, by doubling and inverting the space, and outside, by capturing and framing the views. Pivoting through the centre, the door allows the visitors to interact with and become part of the installation, immersing themselves into and exploring both the real and the reflected landscapes.»
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