Mobile Composition, 2017–2020, Maison Louis Carré, France and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

Mobile Composition is an installation and artist book that develop through one another, focusing on the interior of Alvar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré and the art collection of Paris art dealer Louis Carré, for whom the house was built. Working from archival photographs that fix the collection at a specific moment in 1962, amidst a constant flow of paintings in and out of the house, the project examines its posthumous dispersal and attempts to reconvene it through other means. Acting as placeholders, eighteen key works were identified and remade in quilted black goat leather, retaining only the titles and dimensions of the originals, and installed and documented to restage the original photographs. The project unfolds across distinct but related forms including installation, exhibitions and an artist book.

Maison Louis Carré, 2017
Developed in relation to the house and its dispersed collection, working from archival photographs fixed to a specific moment.

Artist Book, 2017
Conceived as an interior in its own right, the book brings together restaged photographs with archival, cultural and personal research. It gathers the many strands of Mobile Composition into a single form, including the re-identified list of artworks and their details, returning the dispersed collection to the house.

Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, 2020
Curated by Andrew Renton for New Viewings. The project is reconfigured within a gallery context, where the work is reassembled through new spatial relations.