Adriette Myburgh

About

Adriette’s artistic practice, which she terms Architectural Soulcraft, is an act of extraction, reconstruction, and illumination. Through sculpture, installation, and speculative world-building, she engages with architecture at its breaking point—where logic collapses, and material falters—revealing the concealed forces that shape built environments. By reverse-engineering rigid hierarchies and reworking their remnants, she exposes new pathways for spatial and conceptual reinvention.

In her own words:

“There is no logic to measure the weight of a dead soul. The energy required to extract the dead logic of a soulless building depends on the forces embedded within its structure—economic, historical, and psychic. To extract it is an act of illumination, a process of reverse-engineering: dismantling rigid hierarchies, peeling back layers of profit-driven inertia, and reassembling the fragments into something luminous.”

Process Statement:

At the core of Architectural Soulcraft is an inquiry into the unseen forces embedded within spatial systems—codes, grids, neglected frameworks, and the silent pressures of capital. Adriette’s work inhabits this unstable space, where architecture’s failures expose its deeper logics. Through sculpture, installation, and diagrammatic drawing, she excavates these hidden energies and repurposes their remnants into speculative infrastructures—architectural fictions that subvert dominant spatial orders.

She views her studio as a threshold—where motion is undone, systems disassembled, and new spatial configurations unfold. These shifting ecologies manifest as User’s Manuals for Speculative Infrastructures, tracing the conceptual and material pathways that fuel her practice. Diagrams, blueprints, and sculptural elements intersect as documentation and activation—dynamic systems for constructing, deconstructing, and reimagining spatial and social architectures.

Architectural Soulcraft is not a method of repair, but of reinvention. It is a living ecosystem of thought and experimentation—not to prescribe solutions, but to invite engagement with speculative spatial environments. Sculptural architecture becomes a catalyst for new ways of thinking, offering space to reconfigure our collective imagination and to turn the inertia of the present into a dance of new futures.