Astra Dark Interior

The installation, conceived for the spaces of the Astra Theatre, recovers a waste-space, an architectural gap omitted from the executive drawings of the theatre itself. It is a plunge into the architecture of the theatre that manifests itself in all its design aporia. A dark, unresolved interior, a room kept from the public now shows itself for what it is; a hiding place. And it is the feeling of this spatial gap, the discovery of a precluded place, omitted from view, that evokes the presence of the monster and triggers an incomprehensible dialogue with the need to remain hidden and invisibility. A sentimental encounter between architectural obscenity and the evocation of Frankenstein.

“On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood. In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink through which the eye could just penetrate” Mary Shelley