Stefano Passeri

Dust Breeding (Single-Family House)

Los Angeles Critic: Hernan Diaz-Alonso SCI-Arc 2013 Describe the project. Dust Breeding deals with the legibility of amorphous forms in an almost familiar landscape. The forms and the landscape are independent of each other and are governed by independent rules. At the same time, what is initially mere coexistence, gradually determines unexpected moments of empathy resulting in new sets of relationships. These relationships act on the morphology, posture and function of the elements, which thus cease to behave as unrelated - instead, they begin to develop complex character from cohesion and hierarchical arrangements through mutation. Not unlike the dust accumulating on Duchamps work in Man Rays famous photograph, it is possible to read the forms both as independent and as embedded in the landscape. There are three families of mutations: 1) object-on-object, 2) posture, 3) scaling while each family is independent of the others, mutual intertwining occurs on a variety of levels. What or who influenced this project? Urs Fischer (Marguerite de Ponty), Marcel Duchamp (Dust Breeding), Albrecht Drer (Four Horsemen), Andy Warhol (Silver Pillows), Eric Moss (Mariinsky Theater) , MOS (Instant untitled), Colen Campbell (Stourhead), Giovanni Bologna (Appennino). What were you reading while developing this project? Gertrude Stein - Portraits, Giorgio Manganelli La Notte, Allen Fisher Entanglement, Bois & Krauss Formless: A Users Guide, Jacques Derrida Of Grammatology, Manfredo Tafuri The Sphere and the Labyrinth.