Gallery

Description

In The Spyfrost Project, photographer David Trautrimas hypothesizes the origins of iconic modern appliances by reassembling them into top secret, Cold War era military outposts. These skunk work structures, hybrids of machinery and architecture, stand as colossal weaponized ancestors to common objects such as refrigerators, lawnmowers and washing machines. Fashioned with aspiring futurism, yet an ominous sense of militaristic purpose; these installations link the parallel development of capitalism's postwar consumer culture and the Military Industrial Complex.

Representation:
LE Gallery - Toronto Ontario, Canada
PhotoEye Gallery - Santa Fe New Mexico, U.S.A
Eckhart Gallery - The Hague, Netherlands

Biography

Creating fantastical structures from commonplace appliances, Toronto based photographer David Trautrimas unlocks the mind from a state of static recognition as his photographic compositions reveal an alternative take on architecture & landscape. His digital constructions of buildings made from abject and dismantled house wares at once announce the limits of industrial proliferation as they bring levity to the possibility of recycled innovation.

Trautrimas’s fictitious documentation of buildings that never were glean the look of a post apocalyptic world where larger than life structures loom over the surrounding landscape, but they also breath fresh air into architecture’s infinite promise of pushing the boundaries of physics in order to renovate the way we live. His work has appeared in both group and solo exhibitions around the world. He has received international acclaim from publications such as Immobilien Zeitung, Can Magazine and the New York Times, and been featured on major online websites such as about:blank magazine, Designboom, Dezeen, and Gizmodo.