Milano Chow

Narrator: Figures cut from fashion magazines and catalogues appear throughout Milano Chow’s nocturnal drawings, often standing in doorways or windows. As viewers, we’re a bit like voyeurs on these scenes, trying to puzzle out a mysterious story. 

Milano Chow: I really like movies, where the set plays a big role in carrying the story, or at least not so much contributing to the story line but maybe just setting up a mood, and that's what I aim for in the drawings—just a general mood or atmosphere.

Narrator: Milano Chow.

Milano Chow: I’m constantly collecting images.

There are books that are just reference books for architects that will just have floor plans and exterior drawings and photos of buildings. I also like looking at real estate listings, not as a direct image reference point, but just the idea of how architectural space is designed, or how that relates to style and taste.

My goal isn't to make an imaginative architectural plan that could, in theory, be built. It's meant to exist in the space of drawing specifically, and what drawing can do.