The 2013 Triennial Exhibition organized by the renowned International Center for Photography focused on global developments in photography, including extensive representation of raw public imagery shared by people around the world and captured from the internet, as well as highly experimental uses of photographic imagery montaged into sculptural surfaces, along with more finely honed photographic work. To provide a context for and respond to this range on a low budget, WORKac created three types of structures within the IPC’s gallery at their research center in midtown Manhattan. A series of semi-translucent scrims hung floor to ceiling on both floors, serving as surfaces for typography designed by graphic designers MGMT, and subdividing the space.

Simple volumes arranged through the gallery provided seating at key junctures in the space. Lastly, WORKac inserted a three-level scaffolding structure into the gallery’s double-height space, providing a dramatic counterpoint to the existing building’s architecture and an alternative viewing station for a collection of zines.