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Contemporary Manhattan Architect Practice, NYC, USA
Sep 4, 2016
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LOT-EK, new works
September 9 – October 16

opening Friday September 9, 6-8
Alden Projects, 34 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
THIS SIDE UP is an installation of new works on paper by the duo of New York-based artists and architects, LOT-EK at Alden Projects September 09 – October 16; opening Friday, September 09 (6-8 pm). This is LOT-EK’s first exhibition in association with Alden Projects.

LOT-EK, #1 Flattened, Laser-cut cardboard boxes, sprayed acrylic, and acid-free glue mounted on wood and metal frame, 73 x73x1 in. The title?THIS SIDE UP?is a shifting directional marker, indexing a manner to orient a shipped box or container. It also points like an index finger towards LOT-EK?s technique of détournement?of transposing and re-routing already given, commercial vessels for re-devised purposes. In this exhibition, ordinary cardboard shipping boxes (many retaining their original Amazon and other commercial shipping labels) are re-assembled, and transitioned into wall bound assemblages with actionable titles such as #1 Stacked and #1 Flattened (both 2016).
The series, Foldables (2016) comprises ten folding drawings fashioned out of flattened, assembled, spray-painted and laser cut cardboard boxes housed in a similar, laser-cut box: containers en ...