Spencer Stucky
Monday, 6 January 2014
Work from his oeuvre
“Whether architectural, anatomical, or miniature, the model is both object and investigative exercise. As an object, such as a scale replica or illustrative device, a model presents authority: a hierarchy of information structured for legibility. Yet the model is also employed for the prospective, the unmade, the planned action. In this sense the model is a sketch: one rendering of possibility among many, a moment in a process of revision. A model is also an idea: an idealized rendition of what it depicts. In the practice I have built, the notion of the model is central. My photographs and sculptures investigate the fixity of site, the reconfiguration of space, and the affects of display and surface, while utilizing the provisional qualities of the stand-in.”