We will send a plan and a technical exploration of what that could be. It seems very straight forward but there is very intense lighting exploration that we need to get into to get that subtle, moody light that we want from the back of that circle. TF: The idea around structuring the exhibition around light is a very nice idea, I really like it. So I would be interested to see it in plan and to also see it in a spatial sense. TF: I have another question about light and colours IW: We think that overall the content should provide the colour and the exhibition design has three colours: or maybe even two. MM: - For website design and visual design we took direction from your proposed colour palette. IW: AMO is a constellation of things from which I have taken my cue, paint colours this colour palette on the wall is actually quite nice, yellow, white and timber and ply wood. 3. Technical exploration - materials IW: We have found that the technical aspects and the thinness of the vomo wall system - it’s pretty straight forward. We think it can absorb the potential slanted nature of the exhibition, but we could hybridise it with upholstery.
TF & AL: Its a chipboard core MW: We spoke to vomo - there is nothing stopping us - they gave us advice around pricing etc. TF: We do have a large amount of the panels already so this could bring the price down. AL: Our construction workers will give a list of material that is available after the show, because some of the elements were custom 80% are plain walls, very easy, was quick and cheap, and can be adjusted. TF: It means more money for other features in the exhibition. 4. Future questions and explorations IW: the next phase is a kind of a sign off on the themes and content arrangement, where the are we in agreement? Are we on the right track, things will change and we will allow for that but the overall idea/ overall theme - we need agreement on the kind of diagrams that we have made. We would also like comment on room arrangement and big structural ideas and the concepts we have explored around furnishing, fabrics, geometry, layers of space, scale, landscape, all of that and then we can get into a plan. MM: I am very happy with your interpretation of the curatorial statement and some of your initial gestures around furnishings and thresholds and layering because
it creates all kinds of possibilities around silhouette, and also textiles. the thing that I would like to see developed further, because you have mentioned these different elements like bookshelves and the library, and at the moment and its understandable because its still at sketch design phase, that its more understandable for me in words than in forms at this stage. So I think that your narrative on scale is on point, I think that I would like to see more components - like the bench and the couch - how do you interpret it at the scale of the exhibition but i am very happy with the direction that its taken. and also your exploration of light is very, very beautiful. I just like this environment that is immersive and that is attractive and that has these different gradations of light is really evocative and it works against the violent dramatic representations one is often confronted with in exhibitions about African cities. So there’s a kind of gentleness and poetry to your thinking that I think is very, very nice. And that would make people hang out in the space simple because its beautiful. So I think that that’s great! AL: Ok. Will you send us material for comment to look at more closely, first reactions, comments etc? IW: Yes. The other thing that I would like to just add as a footnote to this presentation is that when I put up all the work here, which I am going to photograph and send images to everybody, on how it looks here because it … very often we