Kula Gallery presents a work by Oscar Tuazon, a structure that can be described equally as sculpture and as architecture, though this duality is far more than a formal conceit. What we encounter is a structure poised between the load-bearing and the fragile, between shelter and gesture, between the space we inhabit and the space that, in turn, shapes us.

Within the stone body of the Kula (Eng. tower), whose history already carries connotations of protection and a certain architectural verticality, Tuazon’s intervention operates as a temporary organism, one that does not assert itself as an eternal object. It presents itself as an ongoing process, a construction that implies the potential for addition, disassembly and modification.

The meeting of the ephemeral and the transient with the historical continuity of the stone walls produces no excessive tension, nor does it register as an unnecessary intrusion into an already articulated interior. Rather, Tuazon constructs an interior within an interior, a space that reshapes the very concept of the enclosed volume.

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