Tiny Tumbling Towers
2018
Sculpture and photograph
The towers in Tiny Tumbling Towers are based on the basic principles of skeleton construction: an accumulation of open floors. We see a row of towers falling like domino’s, ’frozen’ in the middle of their fall, and thereby subtly referring to Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino construction.
In the work, I played with the idea of how a row of modernist high-rise buildings is torn down. I find the visual impact of the demolishing of buildings, such as the destruction of the St. Louis suburb Pruitt-Igoe in the movie Koyaanisqatsi, very intriguing. For me, the work is about the tension between the idealism of a scale model, and how reality, in the end, is always catching up with this idealism.
2018
Sculpture and photograph
The towers in Tiny Tumbling Towers are based on the basic principles of skeleton construction: an accumulation of open floors. We see a row of towers falling like domino’s, ’frozen’ in the middle of their fall, and thereby subtly referring to Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino construction.
In the work, I played with the idea of how a row of modernist high-rise buildings is torn down. I find the visual impact of the demolishing of buildings, such as the destruction of the St. Louis suburb Pruitt-Igoe in the movie Koyaanisqatsi, very intriguing. For me, the work is about the tension between the idealism of a scale model, and how reality, in the end, is always catching up with this idealism.
