Jameel Prize 4 - Lucia Koch

Lucia Koch creates architectural interventions by covering façades, skylights and windows with translucent materials and filters, investigating issues of light and spatiality. She is concerned with screens that evoke the taste for the patterns of tiles and mashrabiyas (lattice window coverings) which filled Brazilian houses since the 16th century when the Portuguese settlers bought Islamic traditions with them. In her series Construction Materials (2012) she uses cut out plexiglass to create screens that are framed on sliding panels that overlap, creating a multiplying effect on the patterns and affecting the vision through them. The two screens on display Showcase (acrylic-colour) (2012) and Showcase (acrylic-mirror) (2012) are mostly samples of materials created for interventions presented previously, for example, the ones used in a Turkish hamam for Istanbul Biennial in 2003 or installed onto a window of the Contemporary Art Museum in Tokyo in 2008 or at the doors in a courtyard house at Sharjah’s biennial in 2013.