Sam van Strien

(b 1992, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Van Strien uses two-dimensional media to examine the nature of three-dimensional spaces in the built environment. Combining charcoal rubbing; laser-cut engraving and drawing; he articulates the tactile and visual limits of the public experience of buildings in urban environments. “Architecture is a part of our lived reality: simultaneously experienced visually; by the body and through countless forms of representation;” says van Strien. “It is integral to our history and context: a form of production and sociability; of power and exploitation. The architecture of our environment speaks: it is not mute.”