David Scanavino

When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out

With his signature linoleum floor tiles, David Scanavino’s work explores the mundane vernacular of “the institution”—whether a state hospital, public school, or bureaucratic agency—transforming its language into an abstract, seductive form. For the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, Scanavino creates a floor-to-wall tile installation in one of the building’s most curious and ambivalent rooms.