I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation<\/a> at LUMA Arles\u2019 Cherry Tree Gallery. The room\u2019s exhibition furniture and layout, conceptualized by the acclaimed Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, were contingent upon a singular, poetic demand: the inclusion of a window that framed a living tree. This request was fulfilled by LUMA founder, Maja Hoffmann, and Frank Gehry, who designed a custom aperture specifically for the space, creating a contemplative environment meant for lingering and listening. Here, the legacy of Hadid is animated through a deeply personal convergence of audio, moving image, archival material and graphic homage.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the heart of this installation is an extensive digital repository drawn from the archives of Hans Ulrich Obrist, who recorded an immense volume of interviews and conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2013. Presented across multiple screens and audio stations, these recordings transform the gallery into a living record of Hadid\u2019s intellectual evolution. The footage captures her ruminations on everything from utopian urbanism to the burgeoning intersection of design and technology. Viewers encounter rare exchanges, including early dialogues from 2001 that focus on typology and exhibition, a 2007 conversation at her London studio exploring her fluid designs for cultural institutions across the Arab states, and a 2013 discussion between Obrist, Hadid and Patrik Schumacher tracing her trajectory from Russian Constructivism to parametric urbanism. By prioritizing her own voice, the exhibition subverts the traditional, passive retrospective, allowing Hadid to remain the active narrator of her own radical trajectory.<\/p>\n
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tribute posters by Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, Susan Hefuna, and Hashim Sarkis<\/p>\n
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Surrounding these glowing screens is a series of tribute posters that envelop the room in a collective memory. \u2018Posters are commissioned for each archive exhibition, asking artists and cultural practitioners who were friends with or influenced by the subject to create a piece in homage,\u2019 Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Artistic Director at LUMA Arles, explains.\u2018The beautiful posters on display for Zaha present another perspective on her history and influence.\u2019 The resulting artworks forge a communal narrative, translating her spatial language into deeply varied two-dimensional forms. Among them are three posters by Sumayya Vally with Arabic words translating to \u2018horizon, trace, together\u2019, a photograph of the MAXXI by Iwan Baan, and an original painting by Suzanne Treister. Contributors also include Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, Simone Fattal, Francesco Vezzoli, Mehdi Moutashar, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and more. Together, the video archive and this graphic assembly demonstrate how Hadid\u2019s gravitational pull continues to shape the contemporary architectural imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives: ZAHA HADID AT LUMA ARLES \u00a0 \u2018I don\u2019t use the computer. I do sketches,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,35111,246211,145808,23422],"class_list":["post-693621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-hans-ulrich-obrist","tag-luma-arles","tag-zaha-hadid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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