Façade was an installation of fourteen paper buildings in three sections with a continuous loop of images projected on each section. The piece was created from cut paper and tape with projection and measures 10 x 45 x 10 ft. It was exhibited at the Musee d'art Modern Andree Malraux (MuMA), Le Havre, France, December 6 - 8, 2013.
Façade was created during the “Le Havre-New York-Exchanging Glances” artist's residency program supported by the Institute Francais, the city of Le Havre, and Triangle Association. It was inspired by the unique post-WWII reconstruction of downtown Le Havre as well as its more contemporary social housing constructions on the city’s edges. The constructions and the images reflected my interest in the architectural repetition of the buildings in the city center and their underlying ideals of clarity, harmony, and spaces built to a human scale. This contrasts with the more contemporary, and less refined, social housing erected on the city's the outskirts. Recreated in paper, the heavy forms of the buildings became fragile characters within the stage of the city. On a visual level the projection also introduced light and color (two elements very unique in the environment of Le Havre) to transform and dissolve the buildings’ forms. To my great delight, the work proved irresistible to children.
