Ann Lislegaard: Paraspace

Ann Lislegaard’s (b. 1964, Norway) layered work is a reading of technological existence in a world that blurs the distinction between living creatures and machines. Lislegaard uses science fiction as raw material for constructing spaces which confront concrete architectural spaces and fictitious ones, examining the dialectics between interior and exterior in changing environments. In her work Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) (2006) she juxtaposes architect Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House (1951) on the outskirts of São Paulo with the crystal jungle in J.G. Ballard’s 1966 novel Crystal World.