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This Side Up, 2024

Intervention in public space, Whitechapel London
The work shows arrows, normally found on shipping packages, placed on the windows of a detached house in London. Through this gesture, the house itself becomes a kind of parcel, with its interior and exterior defined as a space within its own Coordinates. The concept of “up” is central here. We usually understand “up” by taking ourselves as the point of reference — but this only works on Earth, where gravity creates the distinction between above and below. Outside the Earth, “up” loses its meaning, because it only exists in relation to “down.” The familiar upward arrow is therefore misleading: it doesn’t actually point to the sky, but rather marks a starting point or origin. By applying these arrows to the surface of a house, the work expands this idea to architecture. The signs appear to rotate the building, destabilising its orientation and questioning how direction, gravity, and space are defined.



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