Reflecting on the work of French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, this project investigates deceit as an operative architectural agent. Rather than exposing truth, this developing architecture is positioned as a medium through which perception is staged, misaligned, and continuously re-authored. Drawing on Calle’s claim that events can “happen” without ever being fully “true,” the project treats lying as a spatial tool—one that destabilises assumptions underpinning programme, authorship, and spatial knowledge.
Through the programme of the table—an apparently stable and familiar architectural field—the project constructs a highly calibrated arrangement. Objects are positioned with high precision, each maintaining a material and programmatic certainty. A reflective surface and fixed viewpoint register these objects simultaneously as themselves and as images. In the reflection, relationships collapse: distances flatten, boundaries blur, and elements appear to align or merge. The table produces two concurrent conditions—one materially stable, the other perceptually deceitful—without privileging either. Truth oscillates between object and image.
