9 Sept – 22 Oct, 2017
Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France

Mobile Composition is an installation and parallel publication focusing on the interior of Alvar Aalto’s Maison Louis Carré and the art collection of Louis Carré, a Paris art dealer for whom the house was built. The project works with the posthumous dispersal of the collection and is an attempt to reconvene it through other means. Named for a small sculpture in the collection by Alexander Calder, the work considers how artefacts and architecture might collide in a way that moves beyond established ideas of the domestic, opening up access to peripheral histories and wider narratives.

Photograph: Heikki Havas c.1960, Alvar Aalto Museum

Exterior A, 2016. HD video, 6:28. Filmed at Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne with permission from Association Alvar Aalto, Paris

A vase rests on a table, 2016. bookplates, goatskin, gouache on paper

 

 

 

 

 

XYZ, 2015. silkscreen on perspex, galvanised steel, goatskin, gouache painting on giclee prints, Artek wool upholstery. Photos: Ben Westoby

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Sudden Extinction of Light, 2014. silkscreen on goatskin, perspex, galvanised steel. Photos: Sam Drake

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tavern with Pendant A110, 2014. HD video loop. Filmed with permission at the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki

Studio A (from a Stool 60), 2014. HD video, 10:26 minute loop. Filmed with permission at the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki