carpetcity

a miniature ghost city rises from a magic carpet site - its buildings' floor plans determined by the intricate geometrical patterns of the woven designs...
the architectural style is complex-contemporary-monumental and the models are elaborately detailed with multi-leveled towers and zig-zagging side protrusions...
the pure whiteness of the forms contrasting solidly with the rich colour scheme of the persian carpet, and yet the constructed pieces seem all the more fantastical...

from the self-contained compactness of the area specific carpet city, the gallery space expands with partial full size undulating walls as outlined in some of the maquettes...
the white-washed wall constructions are suggestive of Malevich's suprematist vision of abstract  geometric forms soaring in a white universal space, as their white on white structuring floats seductively as cubistic apparitions around every oddly angled nook and corner...

Babak Golkar  'Grounds for Standing and Understanding" at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, 

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 

Granville Island

January 18th to Frebruary 26th, 2012