Drawn with scissors - Works by Regina Poly

In this exhibition, Aedes Architecture Forum documents the extensive works of Regina Poly. Based on her professional experience in the design of public spaces as an architect and landscape architect, Regina Poly began twelve years ago to newly define specific questions of representation and of the interplay of interior and exterior spaces from an artistic perspective.

The result is a series of silhouettes, monochrome and colour transparency cuttings, layered images and miniature black-and-white backdrops, which deal with how the dynamic experience of space beyond computer-generated animations can be conveyed to the viewer. In Poly’s choice of subjects – ranging from historical ensembles (Potsdam) and modern architecture (Brasilia, Japan) to individual buildings (Berlin) and entire districts (Manhattan) – it is evident that it is about the gradual and layered visualisation of the built environment in continually new variations.

Regina Poly’s ‘drawings’ with scissors are not intended to alienate or subjectively shape the object, rather through structured cut and transparency to make them accessible in a new way. A process that is not dissimilar to that of a gardener, as he uses his tools of axe and shears to clear a view and shed light on the trees.