Verisimilitude

Mimesis is the root of all art and architecture, exposing a “gap” between the real and the recreated. The project experiments on this “gap” through the lens of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky situated at the now abandoned heritage-listed entry into Sydney’s Carriageworks Way. Exhaustive documentation of the antagonistic site unveiled several Tarkovsky-esque elements that served as a perfect base for investigating the “gap”. Through minimal interventions and relentless repetitions, The Cinematographic Exhibition recreates seven scenes across the site, taking visitors through an empirical journey showcasing familiar spaces in an unfamiliar light, inadvertently exposing Country’s quiet reclamation of Colonialism’s Heritage imprints.

The transition from one recreation (design intervention) to the next on the subject site

Design Intervention 6 is located to the south of the subject site. It recreates a still from Tarkovsky's film Mirror. The "gap" here is apparent but reduced.

Design Intervention 5 recreates yet another still from the movie Mirror. The gap here is less apparent and bears a stronger semblance to the original.

Physical model of the overall site and the proposed interventions unveiling the Gesamtkunstwerk. Scale 1:275.

Individual miniature physical models of the seven design interventions on site. These models were done in rigorous detail to further investigate that "gap" between the real and recreation.