Spatial / 2015

Tile Wall

Participatory ceramic installation · Royal Academy of Arts
PLAY / ARRANGE / TRANSFORM

An interactive ceramic wall transformed modular tiles into an open field of play—visitors continually rearranged colour, geometry and pattern into a collective composition.

ABOUT THE WORK

Created for the 2015 Unexpected Hill programme inside Burlington Gardens at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The wall invited public exploration of ceramic geometry and asked how play might enrich everyday life.

TILE WALL / OPEN COMPOSITION

Designed to be
redesigned.

Hundreds of patterned and three-dimensional ceramic pieces became a shared visual language. Every visitor could move a tile, begin a structure, interrupt one, or continue somebody else's idea. The wall was never a fixed artwork; it accumulated public gestures throughout the exhibition.

Venue
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington Gardens, London
Programme
Unexpected Hill
Dates
3 July—20 September 2015
Lead support
Turkishceramics
ARCHIVE / ROYAL ACADEMY

Placed in
context.

Tile Wall formed the participatory interior counterpart to Unexpected Hill. The official invitation and gallery guide place the work within the Royal Academy's 2015 architecture programme and record its relationship with Turkishceramics.

Official Royal Academy and Turkishceramics invitation for Tile Wall
OFFICIAL TILE WALL INVITATION / ROYAL ACADEMY × TURKISHCERAMICS
Royal Academy Unexpected Hill gallery guide with Tile Wall credit
UNEXPECTED HILL GALLERY GUIDE / ROYAL ACADEMY / 2015
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 poster showing Burlington House
ROYAL ACADEMY / BURLINGTON HOUSE, PICCADILLY / SUMMER 2015
Unexpected Hill acknowledgements crediting Studio Nakisci for the interactive Tile Wall
OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / INTERACTIVE TILE WALL — STUDIO NAKIŞÇI
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