This artwork is a large scan section of the RNTNEH and the EDH buildings, where different cutting planes were overlapped in order to peek inside the rooms. This creates a view that is impossible to obtain in reality: as if the facades of the buildings were removed, exposing the interior occupancy and daily life illuminated by the 3D scanner.
This artwork (Work 2) is part of the permanent exhibition ‘The Texture of Air’ at the new Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals. The project attempted to capture the memory of the old RNTNEH and EDH buildings while still in use, recording their spatial use and depicting activities using 3D laser scanning—also known as LiDAR. This generated a series of images that address their large scale while, at the same time, capture and showcase millimetric detail of objects, people and life, done by Bernadette.
The exhibited artwork was done by Bernadette Devilat, in collaboration with Laura Mitchison. It consists of the 3D scan section printed on glass and illuminated from the back. All the work was done in partnership with the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL using LiDAR scans captured in training workshops at the hospitals' former homes on Grays Inn Road, with these UCL participants: Bernadette Devilat (tutor), Ecem Ergin, Felipe Lanuza, Fatma Zeyneb Onsiper and María Catalina Venegas at the EDH; and Lei Jiang, Shivani Shah and Victoria Wu at the RNTNEH.
The exhibition was done by On the Record Community Interest Company, with funding by the HeritageLottery Fund and UCLH Arts and Heritage. It is open on weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm at 47-49 Huntley Street in London. More information here: https://www.thetextureofair.uk/
Author: Bernadette Devilat, in collaboration with the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL with the help of Lei Jiang, Shivani Shah and Victoria Wu at the RNTNEH, as students in the context of on-site data capture training.
Exhibition curation and production: Laura Mitchison -On The Record
Author: Bernadette Devilat, in collaboration with the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL with the help of Ecem Ergin, Felipe Lanuza, Fatma Zeyneb Onsiper and María Catalina Venegas at the EDH, as students and staff in the context of on-site data capture training.
Exhibition curation and production: Laura Mitchison -On The Record