{"id":146,"date":"2011-02-12T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/?p=146"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:11:57","slug":"ragschapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/projects\/ragschapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rags Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div class=\"description\"> <p>As&nbsp;an&nbsp;architect, I&nbsp;have always been interested in&nbsp;the subject of&nbsp;cult structures. The entire process of&nbsp;their emergence, the gathering of&nbsp;donations, volunteers, the construction process, and finally the feeling of&nbsp;peace within a&nbsp;chapel.<\/p> <p>At&nbsp;the exhibition \u2018Islands\u2019 in&nbsp;St&nbsp;Petersburg, there was an&nbsp;opportunity to&nbsp;fulfill this idea, to&nbsp;reenact the creation of&nbsp;a&nbsp;chapel in&nbsp;miniature. When someone decides to&nbsp;donate clothing to&nbsp;the church, they put it&nbsp;aside in&nbsp;a&nbsp;plastic bag, and sometimes it&nbsp;remains in&nbsp;the closet, gathering dust for years. We&nbsp;collected these kinds of&nbsp;belongings using them to&nbsp;fill the glass jar walls of&nbsp;the chapel. This created place of&nbsp;meditative human presence and refuge from the external world, which becomes surreal, obscured by&nbsp;the <nobr>lens-like<\/nobr> walls of&nbsp;the jars.<\/p> <p><em>Architecture: Olga Treivas<br \/> Year: 2010-2011<\/em><\/p> <\/div> <ul class=\"float-blocks\"> <li><div class=\"block mtop1 mleft2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-1big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-1big-400x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-1big-360x200.jpg 360w, https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-1big.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li> <li><div class=\"block mtop2 mleft1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-2big-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-2big-cover-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-2big-cover-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ragschapel-2big-cover.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li> <li><div class=\"block mtop1 mleft0\"> <p class=\"blueblock\">Exhibition: Islands<br \/> Place: Gardencity,<nobr>St. Petersburg<\/nobr><br \/> Curator: Vladimir Frolov<br \/> Year: 2010<\/p> <\/div><\/li> <li><div class=\"block mtop2 mleft1\"> <p class=\"blueblock\">Ehibition: Exhibition of nominees of Kandinsky prize \u201910<br \/> Place: TSDKH | Moscow<br \/> Curator: Andrey Erofeev<br \/> Year: 2010<\/p> <\/div><\/li> <li><div class=\"block mtop1 mleft1\"> <p class=\"blueblock\">Exhibition: Labour&#038;Consumption<br \/> Location: Tsvetnoy, Moscow<br \/> Curator: Elena Bakanova<br \/> \u0413\u043e\u0434: 2010&ndash;2011<\/p> <\/div><\/li> <\/ul> <p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As&nbsp;an&nbsp;architect, I&nbsp;have always been interested in&nbsp;the subject of&nbsp;cult structures. The entire process of&nbsp;their emergence, the gathering of&nbsp;donations, volunteers, the construction process, and finally the feeling of&nbsp;peace within a&nbsp;chapel. At&nbsp;the exhibition \u2018Islands\u2019 in&nbsp;St&nbsp;Petersburg, there was an&nbsp;opportunity to&nbsp;fulfill this idea, to&nbsp;reenact the creation of&nbsp;a&nbsp;chapel in&nbsp;miniature. When someone decides to&nbsp;donate clothing to&nbsp;the church, they put it&nbsp;aside in&nbsp;a&nbsp;plastic bag, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbureau.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}