Tristan Al-Haddad
Mediums: Brick, Experimental / Multi-Media, Interactive, Lighting, Sculpture, Steel
Artist's Work
Artist's Bio
I am an artist/architect whose work investigates the relationship between material and immaterial worlds, or rather the relationship between spaces of matter and spaces of thought. The work is used as a medium through which I am able to conduct experiments of the body's existence in space and the virtual [mental] perception created by this occupation. This interest in virtuality is rooted not in technologically driven synthetic spaces, but rather in the history of thought and mental experience, one might think of dreams here. The thesis being that the world is constructed through a perpetual feedback loop of conception, projection, and perception. In other words, the relationship between thought and matter is one of experiencing the world, processing and reconstructing the world of the mind, and then reconstructing the world of matter in order to continue this never ending feedback loop.
Another primary thesis in my work is that of understanding materiality as fundamental to the design and construction of any object or space in the world of matter. Part of the conceptualization of all of my projects starts with an understanding of materiality and the process of forming and manipulating that material, in other words the process of not of 'Being', but of 'Becoming'. In this construct the world is always understand as being in a state of dynamic flux and seeking adaptation through chance and choice. The work mediates design structures both from the top-down and the bottom-up, allowing materiality, geometric configuration, patterning, and formative processes to become design collaborators in the act of making, or 'Becoming', in real-time.
