Monday, February 19, 2007

tadashi kawamata.

The Doris Salcedo post reminded me of Tadashi Kawamata's work. He also constructs temporary landscapes within abandoned sites (often civic institutions) using scavenged lumber, chairs, and doors that are either found on site or have a relationship to the forgotten institution, although his work is more about the future possibility (or rebirth) of a site, than it is about memory (like Salcedo's pieces).

What I like about his pieces is that they are ambiguously part (con)struction/part (de)struction-- but perhaps there is no difference between the two.


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