Fabric Room



Spring 2021
Prof. Zahra Safaverdi
with Ryan Carlton

Siteless // Gallery
Fabric Room is a miniature proposal for a room that is part of a larger exhibition entitled articulate in formation, which broadly looks at the inhabitation of the inhabitable, the screen. The exhibition and work at large looks at the proliferation of digital media in contemporary society and ways of exploiting the malleable nature of the digital as media. 

Drawing and expanding from a single still from By the Law, a 1926 Soviet film by Lev Kuleshov, this room allows inhabitants to inhabit the image of a film through a malleable fabric room. The still is reinterpreted as slices and sections through itself it, and then (re)presented as a series of silk printed images both above and below the inhabitant who walks in the metaphorical “waterline” integral to the film. As inhabitants move across the room the image is warped and distorted by their gravity in the interconnected fabric space inviting misalignments and mis-readings. 

Featured in M-A-S-K-S exhibition “articulate in formation

Dylan Herrmann-Holt
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Dylan is a designer from rural Appalachia. His work centers rural spaces, construction tectonics, community development and exploring visual representation. He did his BS in Architecture at Kent State University and M.Arch I at Harvard GSD. He typically finds inspiration in the architecture of his youth in Southern Ohio and whatever pop culture he is presently immersed in.