The Bagri Foundation Commission, Asim Waqif’s वेणु [Venu], opens at the Hayward Gallery in London
A dense bamboo dwelling – part musical instrument, part refuge from the visitors who flock to the Southbank – has been erected outside the Hayward Gallery . A matrix of 610 bamboo poles and 700 strips of bamboo, softened and made supple from days of soaking in water, arc over each other, fan out, and weave themselves through the rungs of a steel scaffolding frame.
Working with a group of structural engineers, technicians, students at the Royal College of Art, and his long-time collaborator, the architect Shantanu Heisnam, Waqif shaped the installation over ten days after the team had been taught a knotting technique called lashing. ‘I wanted everyone to get responsibility for taking some creative decisions’, Waqif explains. ‘The kind of ideas and the work that happens is then very different from an instruction based process’.
, which was shown at Kochi-Muziris Biennale, it not only responds to the site but will likely also, given the expected levels of interaction, end up bearing the marks of its use. A scaffolding rig is encased within the form to de-exoticise and contextualise the bamboo as a resource that is a ubiquitous building material used in construction projects across South and Southeast Asia.
Having trained as an architect, Waqif is sensitive to what he sees as the need to preserve historic knowledge and existing ecologies as South Asia’s urban sprawl booms. Across his practice he uses vernacular techniques and materials to foreground the value and relevance of pre-industrial processes.
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