SWIM CLUB’s solar building provides a fitting venue for ‘Pompeii’ art exhibition

Nestled behind The Power Station is a small picket building, an architectural gem modeled after Japanese tea homes and Texas state parks buildings.

Operating as each a sculptural work titled “Desert-Island” and an unnamed challenge house, it should largely be programmed by the SWIM CLUB art collective, a two-person workforce consisting of Power Station supervisor Gregory Ruppe and SooMi Han.

Featuring a dwelling roof and solar-powered lighting, the self-sustaining vessel is located between a hydroponic gardening system and a greenhouse, all designed and constructed by Ruppe. While sculpturally unbiased of one another, the buildings function as an eco-conscious triptych that addresses problems with local weather change, sustainability and art as a social and collaborative follow.

The house opened final week with a solo present by Scottish artist Scott Myles, who not too long ago took half within the artist residency program at 100W in Corsicana. Titled “Pompeii,” the exhibition is described as a “heat infused condensation” of Myles’ time in Texas; ruminations on “petro-culture, automotive-terrorism and our changing climate.”

Consisting of a massive portray of a muscle automotive and painted greenback payments ringed with quarters Myles flattened on the Corsicana practice tracks, the present captures the depth of Texas summers, furthered by the non-climate-controlled atmosphere.

Located in a news rack subsequent to the house is a broadsheet with a picture by Myles on one facet and an excerpt from an upcoming novel by Dallas- and Corsicana-based writer David Searcy, whom Myles befriended throughout his residency. The textual content discusses concepts of acceleration and stasis — the perpetual herky-jerky manner we transfer by way of life, fueled by moments of change. It underscores the irony at play in Myles’ set up: that we’re continually transferring but endlessly held hostage by the sweeping forces of capitalism.

Details

“Pompeii” runs by way of July 25 at The Power Station, 3816 Commerce St., Dallas. Saturday from midday to five p.m. and by appointment. Free. For extra information, e mail [email protected] or [email protected].