Cell Project Space

London based artist Hiroe Komai shows series of sculptural low-relief wall collages and colored drawings. The drawing take up themes of Cubist and Modernist apartment blocks, cellular geometric lattices, or the interior of a restaurant. They develop into shallow spaces within collages of layers of cheap veneers, the kind usually applied to the interior surfaces of houses. These include wood - grain flooring sheets that are used to cover up less aesthetic building structures and give homes a more cozy atmosphere and other materials associated with Komai's interest in the British obsession with DIY. The low - relief wall sculptures are edgy and angular, repeating 1970s - 80's style hexagons and parallelograms, a play on those innocuos home decorations that look "arty" but were likely manufactured with no meaning.