Household appliances that, with the help of digital processing and a good dose of imagination, are transformed into buildings in a utopian urban environment…
The Canadian photographer David Trautrimas spends most of his day combing through flea markets for antiques and second-hand objects, and following auctions on eBay. What he is looking for are household appliances, which he transforms, using digital processing and a good dose of imagination, into buildings in a utopian urban environment.
David Trautrimas‘s digital prints depict abandoned buildings and urban networks, caustic in style yet guardedly exuding a hidden charm. It was the artist’s disappointment with the “dry” aesthetics of the residential development we have seen in recent years that prompted him to redefine the urban landscape in the form of imaginative buildings, freed from planning regulations and defying the laws of nature. He says he would like to see examples of architecture in private housing like the provocative, commercial-scale work of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.
First, David Trautrimas takes apart old mixers, coffee machines, vacuum cleaners and other household items, then photographs them and digitally “reassembles” them into what he calls Habitat Machines. Razors become skyscrapers and toasters become houses, set in a retro palette of pastel colours beneath a melancholy sky.
David Trautrimas is currently presenting his collection The Spyfrost Project to a European audience at the Eckhart Gallery in the Netherlands.
