Artifacts of Evidence / Dokazno gradivo was a spatial installation containing multiform artworks produced by studio Paul O Robinson; in direct correspondence with the installation is an integral book/artefact produced by artist and designer Maja Licul. Transformed artifacts and spaces located in the house of Jože Plečnik are juxtaposed with works emerging from ongoing examinations of interior and exterior sites located in Slovenia and Italy – specifically museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy. The work addresses issues of permanence and ephemerality and the transformation of conventional signs into material forms. These concepts are expressed through the transmutation of creative X-Ray documentation into paintings and sculptural pieces, where hidden spaces and material structures are excavated and unfolded as new forms and spatial structures.
As the production of the built environment moves ever deeper into the ephemeral sphere of images and singularly self-referential—objectified—formal production, the work explores narrative structures and cultural artifacts as modalities within the design process that manifest as a matter of spatial consequence. The conceptual premise is that evidentiary artifacts assume meaning by virtue of their attachment to consequence, place and time, and that the traces left in the aftermath of habitation emerge as a charged body-of-evidence that projects, then temporarily holds within itself, the present absence of occupation. Actions regarding materialization, tectonics, representation and memorialization are intrinsically entwined within both process and outcomes.
