Weak Potentials

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Weak Potentials

by Studio Jakob Sellaoui

Weak Potentials, a solo exhibition by Jakob Sealloui at MAGAZIN, Vienna, investigates the domain of construction as an open archive, uncovering both the pleasures and disappointments of the material world.

In looking beyond the act of making as strictly a means to an end, the objective is to examine the process as a fragile territory, where form is constantly re-negotiated.

A balancing act where notions of stability make way for uneasy relationships, conflicting intentions, ideological dilemmas and meanings stuck somewhere halfway.

The exhibition is the result of a procedure of material exercises assembled on-site. Forming “quasi-architectures”, that like characters, inhabit the space.

Scattered among the different rooms, they evoke actual built situations that seem to have been cropped and removed from their natural physical habitats.

Despite emerging from the realm of every-day construction materials, their tectonic protocols have been suspended.

Supporting structures, byproducts and makeshift tactics take over, hijacking the formalised world of building.

Crude junctions, soft links and fragile connections navigate uncertainty as the rule rather than the exception.

Abandoning the belief of arriving at ideal scenarios or permanent solutions, Weak Potentials explores the possibility of a “good-enough architecture”. A world in which the non-iconic, fleeting and frail persists—perhaps good-enough is as good as it gets.

Author Studio Jakob Sellaoui
Location MAGAZIN. Exhibition Space for Contemporary Architecture, Vienna, Austria
Year 2020 (3rd July - 08th August)
Photography kunst-dokumentation.com