Veronika Kellndorfer

Modernist architects have long been enamored with glass and its ambiguous qualities—solid yet invisible, present yet transparent. Kellndorfer’s interest in the ambiguity of space within buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is evident in her studies of architectural elements such as glass windows, blinds and screens, whether man-made or shelters of vegetation, that provide privacy yet filter natural light to create a kind of enigmatic environment. „It‘s a floor to ceiling window from the Oscar Niemeyer building: Pavilion of the Bienal, São Paulo. The rhythm of the window bars interferes with this jungle like tree from the Ibirapuera Park, creates a tension between the organic form of uncontrollable plants and the grid structure of modernist architecture. The space behind the window, is transferred from a three dimensional urban landscape into a two dimensional picture plane. The tree is covered with climbing plants, the tiny green leaves have the form of enlarged raindrops“.