Luisa Lambri / Group XIV, May 02 - Sept 02

FINAL PROJECTS

9/17/02 to 9/29/02

MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A at the Schindler House, 835 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA

Luisa Lambri’s photographs explored her subjective experience of built space. Selecting modernist subjects, Lambri worked with the architecture of Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe, among others. At the Schindler House, she presented a photographic survey of works by R.M. Schindler and Richard Neutra in which she sought to document not the architectural object, but rather, a sense of place. Focusing on the details of a building, she pictureed corridors, stairwells, and textures. Ultimately, Lambri’s physical document was an inversion of the traditional photograph—what was being captured was not the exterior space on the other side of the lens, but rather the interior experience of the photographer. Lambri’s images were, in a sense, self-portraiture.