CHICAGO—Volume Gallery debuts a new body of work from ROLU, titled Everything is Always Changing All the Time, opening with a reception on September 7th from 6-8 PM at 845 West Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL.
“What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.”
-Physicist David Bohm
With this “spirit” in mind, ROLU’s attention is equally paid to thought and content, conception and reality. With their active engagement in a multitude of dialogs, they design like water – mixing ideas from the past, from each other, from memory, and from fantasy. Sampling from these different forms of inspiration, ROLU presents forms that are both familiar and completely new.
In Everything is Always Changing All of the Time, ROLU collaborates with Greek architect Andreas Angelidakis to create ambiguous spaces within space, where the work exists as ‘many points of view in suspension’. Sculptures function as dressers, chairs double as totems, forms serve as screens for video projection all contributing to their own unique dialoged and preserved for participation. Suddenly a Lygia Clark sculpture becomes a chest of drawers and a Helio Oiticica installation turns a chair into a room.
The work is a continuation of ROLU’s ongoing study of questioning when a design begins – is it invented or discovered. The works will be presented on Angeldakis’s Universal Exhibition Walls – which act as dividers, plinths and architectural elements.
