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Competition submission: Tallin Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019 Satellite Programme, Open Call: Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty

Design submission for Tallin Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019 Satellite Programme,  Open Call:  Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty 

"Scratch-off: Unmasking a city" 

Esen Gökçe Özdamar 

Format: An exhibition in a gallery 

We approach buildings and spaces with a certain expectation or impulse, such as meeting, seeing, being seen, and gazing. We expect buildings to receive, accept, or communicate with a sensory response. This surprising moment, encountered in the language of space and space, cannot be projected from the viewer’s eye. As our cities are increasingly becoming homogeneous in a globalizing world, the discovery of spaces and discourses brings us all to a label and narrative city. In such a world, spaces become no longer alive shaped by their “makeup” narratives which drags away inhabitants. Therefore, scratch-off city creates an interface to the expectations and assumptions of the viewers by unmasking the issues of beauty and aesthetics of this “visible” architecture. The exhibition consists of a series of fill-in-the blanks sentences and small images of some familiar buildings and spaces in Tallinn covered under scratch-off shiny small surfaces for interaction with its viewers. Placed on a wall-mounted plywood surface in a gallery, scratch-off city reminds its viewers that they can have expectations, hopes and intentions, giving them the chance to intervene in existing buildings with handmade drawings and additional images on the hidden images than they encounter. In this way, the wall becomes a face-to-face interface surface where many promises and expectations are met as the metal surface is drawn. Scratch-off city is a peeling that tries to dig up expectations of its inhabitants. Metallic colored acrylic paint is mixed with dishwashing liquid and textured onto the images and the textiles coated with transparent tape form a scratch paint that can be peeled off with a coin. Materials used for the exhibition: An existing wall surface, preferably U shaped For mounting: Plywood (6 mm thickness, the other dimensions of the panel depends on the existing wall) / cardboard mounted vertically on a wall For coating color: Metalic colored acrylic paint (for scratch-off) Dishwashing detergent Transparent duct tape For underneath image: Paper with hand-drawn or printed images stuck on plywood / cardboard mounted vertically on a wall Permanent markers Lighting 

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