an update on cranes

AN UPDATE ON CRANES presents works by Bella Bram, Luzia Cruz, Maija Fox, Jakob Francisco, Adriana João and Eglė Ruibytė. The group show at Frappant, in Hamburg, was curated by Guilherme Vilhena Martins and is framed as an inquiry on playfulness and uselessness resembling utility, pointing at the threshold of speculative space, incomplete structures as critiques of utility and the feeling of comfort. May works that seem to fall under the conceptual scope of utility-simulation present a critical point about actual, practical structures of utility? Why do circuits and complex fictional structures - like sculptures - have become a point of interest when there is a growing sense that the notion of utility must be reinvented from an ecological perspective? Do these systematic structures resemble domestic space in any way? Is a critique of functionality always informed by a notion of comfort? Isn’t functionality itself determined by this notion? Focusing on the relation between architecture and intimate space, AN UPDATE ON CRANES serves as a platform to present a multitude of perspectives that explore and expand these and further questions, ultimately creating a space structured by strange functionality, cozy allure and anonymous warmth, thus underlining this tension.