Couple’s Frottage Lake Verea understands architecture as a living being and as such the result of the frottage represents a closeup portrait of the specific moment of a construction. Couple’s frottage doubles as an analogy of woman lovers love when bodies get together. Diana Stoll, Eric Baden and David Miranda, curators of BMC/MX invited Lake Verea to the former campus of Black Mountain College at Lake Eden in June 2023 to enact/create a foil frottage, or rubbing, of the walls of the Studies Building. The structure, designed by Lawrence Kocher, was built by students and staff of the college in the early 1940s to house classrooms, faculty offices, and studio spaces Frottage was a technique used by the archeologist to make copies 1:1 of glyphs and details of ruins to bring back home and study. Lake Verea takes on the role of archaeologist and use the method to get as close to the architecture as possible. Using aluminum plates, the couple rubs the surface or skin of buildings to thoroughly copy details and accidents.