Monica Chang – Looking Outwards – 09

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For this Looking Outwards post, I was intrigued by one of Kristine Kim’s Looking Outwards post where she looked into the artist, Refik Anadol. Something that really pulls me towards Anadol’s whole portfolio is his ability to create visuals that are able to take the viewers to an alternate universe. Kristine also articulates his ability to play around with the functionalities of that of architectural characteristics which makes sense when his pieces often take the space into account when being presented.

There is one particular piece which Kristine included in her response which was Melting Memories by Anadol which held a concept of materializing memory. It was interesting to see something so fragile and non-tactile like memory was manifested into a visual and perceptive form. With methods like this, Anadol is able to create a new world with digital processed as Kristine also mentions in her response. Anadol’s body of work consists of these ideas of materializing areas/things in the world where one would not really be able to visual or imagine in physical form and he wants to create a path towards a future that connects the digital world with the one that surrounds us already.