vPPR’s proposal consisted of clusters of translucent fabric screens that thematically group artworks, whilst maintaining visual connections to other works beyond through the visual transparency. The design was a direct reference to Alina Szapocznikow’s own studio where the artist used translucent partitions to frame, photograph and protect artworks. The artist investigates the human body, whose work is displayed in chronological order across four exhibition spaces. While her early work is more classical and figurative, her later work is increasingly materially and formally experimental, often distorting the human body. The architectural screens were designed to reinforce the conceptual progressions within her work in the two main exhibition rooms: the earlier room consists of rectilinear screens, with fabric gradienting from pale blue to medium blue to dark blue; the later room consists of curved panels that gradient from pale pink to medium pink to dark maroon. The screens were modular metal framed panels which were deployed in various configurations to help visitors navigate through the space, bring order and narrative to the works, create connections between past and future through the visual transparency, and also display archival photographs in fabric display vitrines.

The layered views across the rooms through the screens and attached vitrines facilitated new ways of viewing the works, for example drawing attention to the profiles and silhouettes of artworks through the abstraction of the fabric versus the intricate textures when viewed direct.