By Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds

Zenith Boil is an exploration of the architectural image when subjected to an atmosphere. Twenty-seven spaces were selected from Pa.LaC.E’s back catalogue of work. A rendering of each space was processed on a 35mm slide and then placed into a photographic scenario that the artists call a “scintillator”, composed of a Newtonian mirror, point light and a camera sensor.

After a subject breathes into an extracorporeal ceramic lung, the warm breath mixes with the cold air of a room, creating a turbulent condition around the renderings. Each slide was video recorded bathing in swirling air. The publication gathers stills from these videos.