Cardboard frames for a photography exhibition

The project

We made frames intended for an exhibition of photography focusing on social architecture in Nicaragua. The project used cardboard sheets that were about to be discarded, giving them a new role as photographic mounts.

Archicercle’s contribution was to manufacture the frames using laser cutting. Recovered sheets were our starting material: we reused existing cardboard rather than producing a new material.

The pieces retain the brown colour of the cardboard and have a square central opening for the photograph. Overlapping edges give depth to the frame’s outline, while the front surface has a simple geometry.

Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.