The American born and Paris based artist Oscar Tuazon and his temporary organic scaffolding map the limitations and experience of space at the ICA this summer. Emancipated from the utilitarian tendencies of architecture, Tuazon's canopy clutches to the interior walls of the ICA's exhibition area. In place of formal composition, the construction swells out into the reading the room and passages behind. The scaffolding delineates the boundary between interior structure and the usable space, while simultaneously commenting on the limits of the art object within allotted vicinity. The negative spaces contained within the modular cubic units become potential places, occupied briefly by the viewer, then lying fallow in the audiences' absence. As a result the nature of this creation is hope, poised in expectation. Utilitarian value is supplanted by possibilities. The labyrinths of wooden beams and absent walls infantilize the viewer; the hovering and heavy-duty maze is at once recognizable and unfamiliar. The audience is taken away from the present location and transported into a pseudo-interactive playhouse; we are the furniture of another future, children in a quiet and unusable playground.

NB: runs till 15/08.