VOID is the 2015 Design BFA Thesis Exhibition that showed from April 17th to May 10th, with its opening reception on April 17th. Friends and family of the class donated money in addition to funds supplied by the Department of Art and Art History in order to construct two walls, purchase several gallons of paint, over 60 meters of vinyl, and printing for 500 catalogs.
I was the Exhibition Installation Manager as well as a member of the Interiors Department. We were in charge of designing how the Exhibition looked and felt. I was personally in charge of managing the team and led the construction and installation phases. I was also part of the Documentation team by filming the making and walk-through of the exhibition in addition to the compilation of the final deliverable document for the course.
In collaboration with The University of Texas, BFA Design Class of 2015
“Design cannot be properly understood in a gallery space because it is void of context. We have chosen to forgo displaying our physical projects in order to call attention to the complexities and nuances of the design process itself. The typographic walls describe each designer’s cognitive process, while an accompanying catalog illustrates the corresponding project’s imagery. This division still does not provide the ideal context for our work, but instead further points to the fallacy in detaching design from its life in the real world.”
