Architectural fictions: audition for a wall and passage

The exhibition investigated the place of narrative and the different registers of representation at play in the experience and understanding of architectural structures and space. The exhibition was initiated by the research group 'Outside Architecture' (Bernice Donszelmann, Tim Renshaw, Mary Maclean) with Mary Maclean as the lead curator. Bernice Donszelmann's contribution included curatorial input and the exhibition of two works.

Architectural Fictions was a curatorial project that brought together the work of eight artist that in different ways addressed principles of fictioning and narrative in relation to the built environment. The project brought critical focus to the narrative structures implicit in the production of space. Through dialogue with the participants, the project developed speculative critical exchange, examining questions such as the interplay between the real and the virtual and the role of design in relation to processes of habitation. Architectural Fictions formed a keynote exhibition in South Hill Park Arts Centre program. SHP is funded by the Arts Council England and is in partnership with ARC which delivers events by professionals from the field of art and culture. A public lecture about Architectural Fictions was delivered by Mary Maclean and Tim Renshaw who together make up the group Outside Architecture. Outside Architecture aims to open up speculative dialogues and images on the materials and signs that compose the texture of shared and lived in space.