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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Leong Leong: The temporary installation for the W/ Project Space in New York’s Chinatown completed by LEONG LEONG is the latest in a series of projects that explore the translation of a legible figure into a continuous visual field. From the street, the installation appears as a glowing, enigmatic box, its contents and purpose unknown. Once inside all reference
to the boundaries of the gallery are obscured by a five-sided figure made of rigid building insulation.

The cave-like space is a result of blending four shapes into a topological environment. The walls of the gallery are lined with mirror to transform the spatial figure into a field of reflections. All material used in the installation will be recycled in the construction of an artist residence in New Jersey designed by LEONG LEONG.

sP: what or who influenced this project?

LL: We are interested in the ambiguity between the figure and the field.
We have been looking at things like color blind tests, Rorschach inkblots, and the optics of fuzzy figures.

sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?

LL:
reading
Alejandro Zaera-Polo - “Cheapness: No Frills and Bare Life”
Robbin Evans - “Translations from Drawing to Building”
Land of Desire - William Leach
Harper’s Findings
listening to
DJ Trouble (WFMU)
Die Antwoord
Koudlam
Erik Satie
Stricken City
Jay-Z “Forever Young”
watching
Random YouTube videos
Food Network
The Fly - David Cronenberg

sP: whose work is currently on your radar?

LL: Miguel Fisac
Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo
Junya Ishigawa
Daniel Buren
Tauba Auerbach
Ellsworth Kelly