Cummulus
Protostructures / Material Discipline / Machinic Arts
MCA Denver Museum of Contemporary Arts / Lelaboratoire
Denver, United States / Paris, France
2010 / 2012
Architects: Ciro Najle, Anna Font
Collaborators: Martín Alvarez, Carolina Telo, Analía Hanono
Curators: Adam Lerner, Paul Andersen (MCA) / David Edwards (Lelab)
Cummulus is a cashmilon crochet membrane conceived as a multiplicity of catenary surfaces integrated in a cascade of iterations that escalate the subdivision of a flat sheet into a set of catenary patches according to the progression 0001-0002-0004-0008-0016-0064-0256-1024. The increase of points in the crochet breeds double curvatures and twists, against the grain of the harmonic form. The technique consists of local increments from one to two points at those instances where the curvature of the surface requires material. The increment of points generates the elongation of the lines and the control of curvature. The increment is proliferated, and the over elongation is used to lose control through the means that initially enable it, nurturing a consistent but paradoxical mechanism of expression through nonlinear behaviour. Cummulus integrates a spectrum of divergent sensorial reminiscences (oppression, weight, lightness, buoyancy) and figural resemblances (brains, storms, wombs, intestines, turbulences).
