LOT-EK
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an installation of drawings on flattened, assembled, spray-painted and laser cut cardboard boxes

completed

2016

location

Lower East Side, New York

collaborators

Julien Hervault, Matilde Recanati, Matteo Bologna, Garance Vallee

gallery

Alden Projects

awards

concept & vision

a series of drawings, laser-cut on used, flattened, folded, or stacked cardboard boxes - we leave each box as is, with its layer of tape, stickers and labels. We add a new layer of yellow paint, and then we cut, or rather, burn, meticulous laser-cutting the cardboard surface / an UrbanScan Atlas, a photographic codex of our mapping of urban, infrastructural things, 'a kind of autobiography of LOT-EK way of seeing', in the words of gallerist and curator Todd Alden / 56 UrbanScan Blocks, yellow legal pads, 50 images each (the amount of pages of a pad) from one UrbanScan category, one image only visible on the wall

impact & significance

an experiment with the mundane material of everyday supplies, and a reflection on the movement of commodities within our culture

Dec 12, 2025

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND