Heidrun Holzfeind / Group XXXVII, Oct 2013 - Mar 2014

JAYWALK

3/14/14 to 3/16/14

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

From time spent in master-planned social housing sites of the 1930s-40s, as well as research into a mobile home designed by R.M. Schindler, artist Heidrun Holzfeind delved into the user experience of modern architecture in Los Angeles. For jaywalk, she presented a series of self-portraits in yoga poses, inscribing her body into the interior architecture of the Mackey Apartments. In homage to artist VALIE EXPORT’S series Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations), Holzfeind’s new series of photos used the body as a kind of measuring device to consider the relationship between the user and architectural space.

With similar intentions, Holzfeind transformed the dining nook in her kitchen into an extra bedroom, exchanging the built-in benches and table for a bed with a wall-to-wall, eleven-sided mattress. The mattress pad transferred the peculiar shape and three dimensional space of the nook – reminiscent of a trailer, crystal, spaceship or womb – into a polygonal object, which could be variously used as a giant floor pillow, an object hung on the wall, or a space to read or contemplate.