SIF an Introduction | 2023

Client: SIF

Location: Kuwait - Sultan Gallery.

Scope: Exhibition Design, Curation, Installation

The exhibition presented artifacts, ideas, and projects in a non-hierarchical space where viewers are invited to eb and flow between an installation and wall-mounted drawings that map out my cognitive journey. The wall text that received visitors read as follows:

Welcome to SIF, a new architectural practice model exploring non-linear processes and unconventional materiality. Architecture here expands beyond the physical and material limitations that bind and limit its capacity to explore constructs and constructions surrounding its ontology. 

Being and belonging are ongoing narratives appearing in conversations about how we occupy our built environment. The product of conventional architectural practices often disregards otherness in today’s complex social structures. 

SIF functions as both a project and practice in parallel; it has no end goal or final form. Its current agenda is to question conventions and standard rules while pursuing new models of architectural practice.

The project showcased at Sultan Gallery is the third activation of our House/Home project. The suspended installation derives its form from context, relying on existing infrastructure to anchor itself into its new environment. Its spatial subdivision is inherently a child of its host, creating a spatial form based on context rather than aesthetics. Objects presented within the exhibition are explorations of dwelling spaces, from literal construction to abstract constructs, that question the difference between house and home.

Exploring a space for intersectional methodologies, the exhibition had a second life as “SIF in dialogue with from nothingness”. A collaboration between two practices, an intersection of two worlds experimenting with softness in our built environment. SIF invited from nothingness to inhabit the House / Home installation with their floristry and their interpretation of how we dwell. Building on the idea of a floating architecture that adjusts itself to each of its surroundings, this collaboration expands the House / Home project to accommodate a new inhabitant. The spatial subdivision at the Sultan Gallery is reconfigured to accommodate the floral installation, giving a new life to the exhibition.