All That Could Have Been
A project by CAN + Harry Lawson
16 January – 16 February 2020
Sir John Soane’s Museum has commissioned architecture studio CAN and artist Harry Lawson to create an installation exploring the relationship between architecture, objects and time.
Drawing from Soane’s approach to collecting, the installation takes the form of three cabinets, entitled All That Was, All That Is and All That Could Have Been. Inside each cabinet, CAN and Lawson have placed a number of objects—including both the natural and manmade, the fragmentary and complete, the rarefied and everyday.
Together these micro-collections reflect on the ways we understand and appreciate physical objects in the digital age, and how, in turn, they shape our understanding of the wider world.
Credits
Design team: Mat Barnes and Harry Lawson
Fabriation and installation: Mat Barnes and Harry Lawson
Installation photos: Jim Stephenson
Curator: Owen Hopkins
Assistant curator: Erin McKellar
