?Full Circle? by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, commissioned by CEPA Gallery and C.S.1 Curatorial Projects. Photo: Coryn Kempster
Full Circle by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster is an interactive sculpture for all ages that playfully rotates the typical swing-set to alter and expand its experience.
Full Circle takes an element commonly found in parks and playgrounds – the swing-set – and by questioning its conventional linear arrangement, achieves a transformation that is abstract, spatial, political and interactive. The project stems from an interest in spaces of play, in the broadest definition of that term, as places that can be used to liberate the individual from the generic and enrich everyday experience.
?Full Circle? by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, commissioned by CEPA Gallery and C.S.1 Curatorial Projects. Photo: Alana Fajemisin Starting with a familiar construct and transforming it, the installation twists the typical experience of a swing-set to provide opportunities for confrontation and dialogue through the positioning of individuals in relation to the work and each other. No longer partaking in parallel movement as on a typical swing-set, the users of Full Circle are invited to join a playful conversation.
Questioning the basic relationships between people in space, the project aims for a socially conscious and thereby political engagement. Further, by bringing a piece of playground equipment together with the charged spatial arrangemen...