MISTRANSLATIONS EXHIBITION
NIPPONBASHI GALLERY, OSAKA
IN COLLABORATION WITH ALEXANDRE VICENTE
Translation is not limited to the conversion of one language into another. It is a diffusion between mediums, dependent on a hierarchical synthesis of concepts between ambiguous yet demarcated layers. The act of adapting information is an intrinsically imperfect operation: a simultaneous interpretation, where conscious and unconscious decisions influence output. Ideas are often complex and convoluted, with constituents inevitably added or subtracted in the process. Similar to translators, architects interpret concepts to drawings that will eventually make buildings. Converting two-dimensional representation into three-dimensional space inevitably produces errors in translation which accumulate regardless of an author's cognizance. In drawing the two simple lines of a wall in an architectural drawing labor, material, and money will be necessitated in three-dimensional space. Mistranslations transpire as imprints of abraded graphite funnel from paper to screen, self-assembling into agglomerations of quadratic pixels, returning from the cybernetic to composites of timber, stone, and metal. These translational intersections between rhetoric, and reality were investigated in this exhibition.
Orthographic Drawing: First Floor Plan
Orthographic Drawing: Reflected Axonometric
Orthographic Drawing: Interior Axonometric
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Detail
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Projection
Architectural Photograph: Interior
Architectural Photograph: Exterior
Architectural Photograph: Lecture