LUAP presents work from Decadence at Mint in Knightsbridge, returning a wallpaper pattern reconstructed from his childhood living room to a domestic setting after exhibitions in London and Hong Kong.
At the centre of Decadence is a wallpaper pattern taken from LUAP’s childhood home. The original design covered the family living room for almost twenty-five years before LUAP digitally reconstructed its repeating motif and began applying it to new surfaces.
The series developed through experiments with materials, time and controlled processes of deterioration. LUAP describes the method as “artificial decay”, recreating some of the changes that might naturally happen to a surface through age and exposure.
Over several months, Decadence moved through very different settings. The work was shown on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, at Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair and then at Mint in Knightsbridge.
Mint offered a particularly fitting context. Surrounded by furniture and designed objects, the wallpaper motif returned to something closer to the domestic environment from which it had originally been taken. A pattern remembered from a childhood living room had moved through gallery and art fair spaces before appearing once again within a furnished interior.
That return was not planned when the series began, but it gave Decadence an unexpected connection back to its source. Personal memory had been reconstructed, repeated and altered through the work, before finding its way back into the kind of setting where it had first existed.
