Unmade
Mirror tiles on flexible panels, arranged in one-centimetre and half-centimetre grids. Practice for Immediate Space, St James Hatcham.
St James Hatcham stopped being a church long ago. It survives through successive institutional lives - renamed, bureaucratically converted, and re-scripted.
In the room now designated Zone 204, the last sacred markers have disappeared: the stained glass has vanished, and the arches sit concealed behind exhibition panels. The name survives; what it once named does not.
Unmade begins from this condition. It reconstructs the church not as architecture, but as an image of its own disappearance.
The intervention is minimal: a Recoding Surface composed of a one-centimetre mirror grid. It restores nothing. In place of the lost stained glass, it produces the event of stained glass - assembled through reflection, solar movement and the movement of the viewer. Rather than forming a stable image, the reflection continuously shifts between visual coherence and fragmentation.
Working with the existing relations between architecture, institutional memory and time, Unmade reveals how bureaucracy produces its own iconography.