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Giant Peep-Show Box: Architecture Event in London, UK – by Catja de Haas

24 Sep 2014

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London, England, UK

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Venue: TESTBED 1, 33 Parkgate Road, London, SW11 4NP

Dates: 15 – 18 Oct 2014

Between October 15 and 18, Catja de Haas will exhibit a gigantic peep-show box in the TESTBED1 space. The peepshow traditionally offered its audiences views to an idealized dream world. In the TESTBED installation however, the peepshow enclosure, a pristine white kitchen island, represents the ideal; its gloss and whiteness masking the waste and chaos that it often takes to achieve surface perfection. The landscape that is looked at through the peeping holes is a surreal mix of chaos, loneliness and waste that undermines as well as questions the perfection of its enclosure.

Through The Plug Hole: Hidden Landscape

Catja de Haas is a practicing architect. Born in the Netherlands, with international experience and a PhD in architecture by design at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, she has presented and exhibited her work at the Bartlett, the Architectural Association and the Chelsea College of Art and Design. This installation is a continuation of her exploration of domestic objects and their ambivalent relation to the private individual and society at large.

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TESTBED 1, 33 Parkgate Rd, London, SW11 4NP. www.testbed1.com

For more information contact CATJA DE HAAS: [email protected]

Location: 33 Parkgate Rd, London, SW11 4NP, UK