HADDAD | DRUGAN |
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Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan are an artist team whose work is about phenomenology and perception. Fusing the temporal with the spatial, and the conceptual with the functional, Haddad and Drugan strive to create environments that encompass people in a holistic aesthetic experience dynamic at different speeds, scales, vantages, light conditions, and seasons. Their site-specific artwork engages with its context and forms a continuously transforming medium of exchange between systems, ideas, and interventions. The art is often activated by natural phenomena like light and water, and when possible incorporates alternative energy sources other sustainable practices. Haddad|Drugan’s approach to new projects includes site investigations and research about a place’s physical, functional, natural, social, and historical aspects. From this they establish a conceptual framework for the art, and then focus in on specific forms and materials appropriate for its expression. The artists work at the scale of both sculpture and planning, and see the thematic or sequential linking of individual artworks as a form of conceptual art unto itself. |
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