The Square Roots 3

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Laetitia Soulier’s work offers a world in miniature in which every detail has been laboriously made by hand. Soulier creates an architectural space based on fractals, a never-ending pattern that repeats itself at different scales, and then photographs each constructed scene. Even the wallpaper, designed by Soulier, shrinks and grows according to the principle of a square root (1:16, 1:4, 1:2). Looking right to left, note what is featured in each room. The rightmost space is empty, and this progresses to increasingly built-out rooms, then to a square space filled with roots and dirt, perhaps suggesting decay and change over time. Three real people interrupt this false reality. What does their presence make you wonder?

From the 2024 exhibition Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming and Neely McNulty, Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Course History

SART 66, SART 68, Architecture II, III, Zenovia Toloudi, Fall 2016

Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023

Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Laetitia Soulier: The Fractal Architectures, Hood Downtown, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16–December 11, 2016.

Provenance

The artist through the Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2017.

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