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this work examines the demarcation of urbanity and freedom.
lime-whitened, urban, found objects form a diagonal staircase rushing through the historic brew-hall > 20m long by 10m high - without explicit ingress and egress ::: the staircase begins just slightly above the floor, and fades away as it approaches the skylight ___ the staircase cuts the strict geometry of the room and plays with association: ::::: Jacob’s ladder, stairway to heaven, ... cloud castle, - dream scenes ___ the floating, individual steps are juxtaposed against the 6 brewing kettle stacks. this juxtaposition demonstrates that liberty and urbanity are utopias, which are not really fixed. ___ the white (-limed)::: topic purity, freedom / lining of soil atop mass graves or according to radioactive incidents or acid rain.
the overall picture symbolizes an imaginary upward mobility as a physical space ... limited / enabled by two utopias :::: because freedom exists only in the limits of our perceived inadequacy - and urbanity is a highly theoretical form - a compression ratio of people who often pretend to be a symbol of progress. |
