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    Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography

    Pretty, Annabel

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    2021-12-21
    Link to ePress publication:
    https://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/asylum-2021/
    Citation:
    Pretty, A. (2021). Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography, Asylum 2021, 166-173
    Permanent link to Research Bank record:
    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5532
    Abstract
    Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, artistic media and photography. The manifestation of these assemblages can be examined in the works of French artist Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (1986–), and Canadian artists Carl Zimmerman (1951–) and David Trautrimas. Gaudrillot-Roy’s assemblages from the series Façades #3 interrogate the notion of architectural form, how buildings impose and connect with their environments. The photographs present the buildings in a superficially twilight aesthetic; the viewer’s immediate glance registers a possible reality, but a second glance confirms the flattened buildings can only be a discourse on the enigmatic notion of spatial qualities. Zimmerman’s photographic practice questions the notion of imagined environments by using the mechanism of the folly or ruin within a utopian world. In contrast, Trautrimas’s assemblages use pastiche, montage and collage to extend on both Zimmerman’s and Gaudrillot-Roy’s images, creating surreal utopian possibilities that transform an actuality by creating and manipulating spatial qualities, redefining how we conceive and perceive space. These pluralistic assemblages draw insights and multiple narratives, as digital architecture has become pervasive and ubiquitous in the search for spatial properties. Unique and enigmatic narratives are constructed, allowing investigations to further the Deleuzian concept of ‘assemblage’ (in French, agencement). This paper aims to shed light on how this contradiction is a central engine for the articulation of relevant discourses and narratives, which have a significant impact on contemporary spatial conception and practices, and push the creative research beyond the limits of the mere superposition that one experiences daily with the digital augmentation of reality.
    Keywords:
    photography of architecture, architectural representation, hyperreality in architectural representation, photorealism, visual realism, fantastical architecture
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    3301 Architecture, 330316 Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)
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