Soft Schindler Exhibition

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly delights is an architecture installation based upon the social dynamics of Mr and Mrs Schindler´s table. On every Sunday the couple opened the doors of their house for gatherings and parties. At those parties, drinking, eating, smoking and dancing were usual, as the precious substances, materials and beverages from the tropics gave steady support to this social openness and discussions. Coffee, Tobacco and Linen/Cotton were always present as silent witnesses of the different discussions, encounters and disagreements, or as simple background for a neutral territory, out of the domain of Mr. Schindler male driven behavior or Mrs. Schindler will to give a feminine imprint to the house.

We take the Linen/Cotton surface as a textile support to be dyed with Coffee Beans, Roasted Coffee and Tobacco, and dry Tobacco. These substances were the materials used to provide a chromatic experience and create different shades of Brown, Red, Terracotta, Beige, etc.

The spatial logic of the intervention is derived from the gridlines taken out of Schindlers house floorplan and then edited to create a non linear space or absolute space, but rather, to create a tropical space feeling of layering and ambiguous experience taken out of the daily life domesticities to create a tension of solid/void, hard/soft, wall/curtain, and so breaking at the same time the neoplasticism grid hidden in the floor plan.