Playing the Picturesque
Edge Gallery Bath
Installation at Edge Gallery Bath, commissioned by the RIBA and Edge as a travelling exhibition of Playing the Picturesque. The commission involved the construction of an additional folly and videogame based on Prior Park in Bath.
The installation takes the form of a series of scaled folly structures extracted from real picturesque landscapes, extended into interactive virtual game environments through digital projections. Twisting their traditional role as markers in the landscape, our follies become junctions between virtual and physical. They grow and change in response to the movement of visitors through the gallery.
For the additional Prior Park folly, we reinterpreted the park’s famous Palladian Bridge, projecting its ‘reflecting pool’ onto the gallery space floor to produce a shifting virtual landscape beneath visitor’s feet.
Operating across physical and virtual realms, Playing the Picturesque asks whether such boundaries are now so fluid that we can consider virtual worlds as sites for realising architecture in their own right.
The exhibition ran from 24th Sept to 14th Dec 2019.