B|AU|S|stellung
Abstracted Constructions
Much of the city of Berlin is an ongoing building-site, littered with the ruins of empty industrial cathedrals, the remnants of bygone urban landscapes. Each layer of construction seeks to erase and supplant a previous layer, to link to specific historical strata while bypassing others: liberal capitalism, communism, fascism, imperialism – great movements and massive contradictory cultural forces that have clashed here, often violently, like titans, have all left their mark, seeking to stamp their ideology on the face of the city and express themselves in monumental architecture. Combining the German for building-site (Baustelle) and exhibition (Austellung), B|AU|S|STELLUNG is a collection of framed views and abstracted impressions of this strangely evocative scenery.
