Young Architects Program 2019 Features Immersive Jungle Setting at MoMA PS1
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MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, is hosting “Horama Rama” by Pedro & Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss), winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 20th annual Young Architects Program, on view through September 2, 2019.TYoung Architects Program 2019 Features Immersive Jungle Setting at MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, is hosting “Horama Rama” by Pedro & Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss), winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 20th annual Young Architects Program, on view through September 2, 2019.This year’s architectural installation is an immersive junglescape. It is set within a 40-foot-high, 90-foot-wide cyclorama structure. The installation serves as a temporary built environment for MoMA PS1’s outdoor music series, “Warm Up,” and was selected from among five finalists.The Young Architects Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has been offering emerging architectural talent an opportunity to design innovative projects. Each year it challenges its winners to develop creative designs for a temporary and sustainable outdoor installation that also provides shade, seating, and water; doing all these and creating their work within environmentally sensitive guidelines.The “Horama Rama” is a large-scale cyclorama and features “a panoramic image of the jungle on scaffolding that sits atop the courtyard of MoMA PS1 and catapults visitors into a wild, foreign territory,” the museum informs. The structure hovers over the courtyard space and is nearly 40-foot-tall, 90-foot-wide. It reframes the horizon and positions visitors in an urban jungle.The large circular structure reconfigures the courtyard space into an immersive environment that visitors can move in and out of which is in contrast to the cityscape. There also hammocks crafted in the south of Mexico along with a functioning waterfall that amplifies the overall experience. A dynamic sense of movement is created by protruding wood “bristles” on the exterior of the structure.Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, said, “Pedro & Juana’s world-within-a-world, ‘Horama Rama,’ is a manifold of views in which to see and be seen, to find and lose oneself in a radically different environment. The installation constructs a collection of scenes into which visitors may escape, even if for a moment, whether in a hammock or by the waterfall.”Pedro & Juana is a studio from Mexico City. It was founded by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss and works on a variety of projects across creative professions. These projects include “Sesiones Puerquito or Little Pig,” (2012-2014), cooking a suckling as a pretext for better conversation; “Archivo Pavilion,” (2012), an intervention in the gardens of Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, DF|Mexico; and “Hellmut,” (2013) at Museo Jumex, Mexico, among others.“Horama Rama” is on view through September 2, 2019, at MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA.For details, visit: https://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide-venues/757476/museum-overviewClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the installation.https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more