Fugitive Structures at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Fugitive Structures, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation‘s ongoing exploration of temporary pavilions located in an urban context is now in its third iteration. The series continues this year with Sway, an audacious ecological structure inspired by Israel’s use of scientifically calibrated fabric greenhouses which make possible the growing of fruit and vegetables in a predominantly arid landscape.

Sway fills the gallery’s Zen Garden and has been created by Tel Aviv-based architectural collective Sack and Reicher + Muller with fabric expert Eyal Zur (SRMZ). The pavilion references Sukkot, an annual festival commemorating the Old Testament story of the Israelites sheltering in the wilderness en route to ‘The Promised Land’. Sway conjures up an impermanent fabric structure that owes as much to modernity with its use of high-tech materials as it does to the familiar shapes of nomadic Bedouin tents.

Sydney-based cross-disciplinary artists Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen present a newly commissioned architectural installation Owner Occupy in SCAF’s gallery. Owner Occupy invites audience participation with five interactive shelters able to be reconfigured as temporary dwellings suggesting, in the process, a possible solution to housing affordability and to the real estate market’s control of land ownership. These ‘hand-built dwelling machines’ can be refashioned to create individual or collective shelters.

Owner Occupy by Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen is on exhibition at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation until 3 October 2015. Sway is on exhibition in the Zen Garden until 12 December 2015.