BUILDING ON THINGS

1 Jan 2000-6 Jan 2013

Overview

No encounter or engagement with ruins is ever just about the past. Ruins are vehicles for time travel in the imagination. A ruined building is a reminder to the viewer of the passage of time that has elapsed between its original, pristine, state and its present disintegration. However, in the same moment a viewer cannot help reconstructing a version of the original building in their present imagination. Further, the ruin projects us forward in time; it prefigures a future in which our present will decline and deteriorate, or be overtaken by some unpredictable catastrophe.