The Traffic of Clouds is a large scale site-specific installation developed by Hackenbroich Architekten in collaboration with Jan Christensen. Developed over the course of eight months between the artist and the architects, this project is ultimately an experiment in collaborative thinking across disciplinary and methodological borders. A logic of weaving and constant movement pervades both the built form and the wall painting. The tension in the wood fibers of the interwoven boards forms sturdy walls of lace, redefining both the visual effect and the intended use of the wood boards. As if casting the negative space between the structure onto the gallery wall, Jan Christensen's painting deepens the space of the room - blending color into changing views afforded by the installation.
The Traffic of Clouds aims to question the standardized ways we use our everyday spaces and to present an alternative where a space's function is not prescribed by convention but determined by its users. Spreading between rooms and reaching towards the ceiling, the new surfaces disrupt and reconfigure the planning of PROGRAM's functions: the installation will dissolve the boundaries between exhibition space and office, hybridizing the formerly separated gallery and office functions. Filling up the entire room, the structure's role will also be blurred - at once an installation object, a walking surface, and a room. Folding upon itself in waves of wood, the structure's fluid form accommodates various activities simultaneously. Like an outdoor park, the construction provides for its users a place for leisurely diversions; continuing to blur categories of indoor/outdoor uses and sponsoring an indoor urbanism of sorts. Indeed, those who work in PROGRAM's office space are invited to use the structure as an office throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Jan Christensen's paintings work similarly to bridge these categories. Having a formal origin in street-art and graffiti, Christensen recaptures the spirit in this practice of 'urban wall painting' by trespassing the formal boundaries of the gallery's wall. As if in conversation with the movement of the boards, multi-hued patterns span indiscriminately across walls, ceiling and column.
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