Array, what if it were …

Array, what if it were …

Launched in 2023 Array represents creator Umut Yamac’s desire to explore the potential of thread for shaping light sculptures. A material with infinite possibilities, both technical and artistic, from which the architect and designer who is based in London, constructs a collection of hanging lamps of different dimensions.

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Three dimensional, dynamic and lightweight pieces made from a delicate materiality and imposing dimensions, where form, texture and light come together, and which we invite its creator to imagine as …

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“…a place, it would be a skyspace by James Turrell”, points out Yamac, highlighting how these skyspaces, often located in the landscape, are works of experiential art constructed from space and light. “Magical places like the Color Inside piece in Texas, that recall the massing of the collection and the lightness and spaciousness of the tightened forms.”

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If it were a feeling, Array would be intimacy, thanks to its use of threads that seem familiar and tactile, and a lighting that feels like a warm embrace. A wrap-around effect that combines a soft downward illumination with a subtle upwards glow generated by the hidden light source within the lower ring of the lamp, that provides an attractive chromatic gradation.

The staircase of the Hayward Gallery, where the Korean artist