CatharineClarkGallery

"Ornament + Crime (Villa Savoye)" takes as its starting point architect Le Corbusier's 1931 iconic building, Villa Savoye, located outside of Paris. Borrowing the digital model from SketchUp's open-source network, Syjuco creates a haunting, animated walk-through of the Modernist structure overtaken with disruptive black-and-white graphics of folk patterns culled from France's prior colonial era: Moroccan, Algerian and Vietnamese textiles. As a historical mash-up of publicly sourced files, this new version of Villa Savoye attempts to transcribe the colonial and cultural history of a Western icon back upon itself as if it were a body to be read and re-read. By infecting the visual cues of its colonies onto itself, a closer view of the society that birthed the building can be made.

Studio portrait using mass-manufactured goods, purchased on credit and returned for full refund after photoshoot. Includes items from Forever21, Charlotte Russe, H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Target, Radioshack. Pants worn as top, pants as pants, leggings as belt, sock as neck cuff, bandeau bra as head adornment, USB printer cable as arm cuff, tights on shoulders, urban outfitters shopping bag on head, found material as accessories.

Studio portrait using mass-manufactured goods, purchased on credit and returned for full refund after photoshoot. Includes items from Forever21, Charlotte Russe, H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Target, Radioshack. Pants worn as top, pants as pants, leggings as belt, sock as neck cuff, bandeau bra as head adornment, USB printer cable as arm cuff, tights on shoulders, urban outfitters shopping bag on head, found material as accessories.

Studio portrait using mass-manufactured goods, purchased on credit and returned for full refund after photoshoot. Includes items from Forever21, Charlotte Russe, H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Target, Radioshack. Pants worn as top, pants as pants, leggings as belt, sock as neck cuff, bandeau bra as head adornment, USB printer cable as arm cuff, tights on shoulders, urban outfitters shopping bag on head, found material as accessories.

Studio portrait using mass-manufactured goods, purchased on credit and returned for full refund after photoshoot. Includes items from Forever21, Charlotte Russe, H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, Target, Radioshack. Pants worn as top, pants as pants, leggings as belt, sock as neck cuff, bandeau bra as head adornment, USB printer cable as arm cuff, tights on shoulders, urban outfitters shopping bag on head, found material as accessories.