“The Rose presents the work of forty-four artists, dating from the 1960s through to the present, and proposes a circular genealogy of collage. The exhibition imagines an extended family of artworks, where kinship is forged through association, at once amplifying themes and providing context through similarity and difference, sounding out feelings and language as a collective effort. The works convene like the petals of a rose: a collage in and of itself.”

For The Rose, the challenge was to double the amount of wall space within lumber room’s signature main exhibition space, to accommodate the ambitious survey of collage. My solution was to create a snaking set of walls within the main space, on a bias to the existing architecture. Each plane is offset from the one behind it, allowing multiple compositions of the works in the show. By moving through the space, the visitor can re-arrange the exhibition, encouraging movement and the reframing of works through multiple curatorial threads.

All images by Mario Gallucci.