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14/9/2004

Length x Width x Height

Rivington Place, London

David Adjaye invites visitors on a journey through space and light to explore and experience the most basic elements of architecture, scale and measurement, the very length x width x height. Building on previous collaborative projects with artists Chris Ofili and Faisal Abdu’Allah and his celebrated Asymmetric Chamber (Cube, Manchester 2003) this new project by Adjaye takes the idea of architecture as sculpture onto a large scale.

The installation is unique in that it physically maps the full length of an actual space to be built on. Adjaye uses materials playfully, working with light and space as well as reclaimed waste materials from the building industry, that are usually left hidden from the public gaze. Visitors’ experience of the space stretches beyond the tangible aspects of construction, and the physical and aesthetic elements of a building to the more spiritual and emotional, as they are encouraged to embark on a journey of their own.

Placing the work on a site yet to be built on, allows visitors and the local community to reflect upon the nature and processes of building, the location of the site, its stories, the memories of previous occupants, and the vision the new building may offer for the future. The site itself has had a rich history of journeys, and communities making homes in the area, from the Huguenots in the seventeenth century, to the Bengali, Bangladeshi, and Somalian communities more recently.

The installation takes on an added dimension as an art work for an architectural project in progress, as David Adjaye has been commissioned to develop a permanent home for culturally diverse visual arts on the site of this installation, in London’s thriving arts hub Shoreditch. This will be the first new public funded contemporary multi-purpose visual arts space to be built in London for forty years, and will house inIVA and Autograph.

This project is supported by Romag and Arts Council England.

David Adjaye is recognised as one of the leading young architects of his generation in the UK. He formed a practice Adjaye/Associates in 1994 and quickly built a reputation as an architect with an artistic vision. Early works include private commissions from some of Britain’s most celebrated visual artists, including Chris Ofili, with whom he designed the British contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2003. New prestigious commissions include the Idea Store, a new build library in the London borough of Tower Hamlets; the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, Norway; the second annual Frieze Art Fair Pavilion, Regents Park, London; the Bernie Grant Centre, a theatre and café square in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver USA.

The Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) is a visual arts agency which supports and promotes the work of artists, curators and scholars from a plurality of cultural backgrounds. It seeks to make their artistic practices and ideas accessible to new and diverse audiences through a programme of exhibitions, publications, multimedia, research and education programmes. InIVA was founded in 1994 with an annual public subsidy from Arts Council England.
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Autograph (ABP) is a photographic arts agency with an international audience. Its primary role is to develop, exhibit and publish the work of photographers and artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and to advocate their inclusion in all areas of exhibition, publishing, education and commerce in the visual arts.
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Opening Hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 12 noon – 6pm

Venue: Rivington Place, London EC2A

Admission: FREE

Access: Wheel Chair access

Location: Underground - Old Street & Liverpool Street

Information: + 44 20 7729 9616

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