SCI-Arc is pleased to present design faculty, Making+Meaning Coordinator, and Acting Undergraduate Program Co-Chair William Virgil’s upcoming exhibition, “Intentionally Opaque.” Designed and conceived alongside Brash Collective partner and fellow SCI-Arc alum Majeda Alhinai, “Intentionally Opaque” is open to the public from July 29 – September 11 in the SCI-Arc Gallery (960 East 3rd Street 90013) with an opening reception on Friday, July 29 at 6pm.
“Intentionally Opaque” presents a large-scale, sculptural labyrinth installation, “a space of otherness simultaneously physical and mental, an analogy for life,” through which visitors can navigate. In the installation, the walls of the labyrinth, formed by individual puzzle pieces slotted together, were digitally sculpted to create highly detailed and precisely crafted curves and ripples to mimic the smooth and sinuous surface of the brain. Each piece was individually CNC milled using a process entailing ‘subtractive manufacturing’ to carefully carve out the forms from a sheet of Precision Board High-Density Urethane (HDU), so no two pieces are alike, comfortably interlocking to assemble the set of walls that comprise the labyrinth.
