The mordenist ruin created by the British artist Alex Hartley, was installed in the gardens of London’s Victoria Miro Gallery. Named as A Gentle Collapsing II, this projects was design to resemble an abandoned and decaying modernist building. The installation was specifically designed for the gallery’s canal-side garden and intended to present “a situation of ambiguous cause and uncertain outcome”.
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“The work offers poignant reflection on themes of entropy and decay,” said Victoria Miro gallery. “It is, in some ways, emblematic of a wider collapsing – of ideals or even spirit.”
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“Running contrary to such thoughts, however, is the undeniable aesthetic pleasure we find in ruins – their compelling, transportative quality”.
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“In this sense, A Gentle Collapsing II becomes a kind of time machine that frees the mind to wander, gently collapsing or dislocating a sense of linear time as it does so.” “The projects is part of Hartley’s After You Left exhibition, and it’s sinking into the waters of the Wenlock Basin, a part of Regent’s canal that reaches behind Victoria Miro gallery.
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Internal walls are exposed to the elements, with plaster fallen away to reveal brickwork. The remains of a staircase are open to the sky, and windows are missing their panes.
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Inside the gallery, further architectural fragments – which appear to have been rescued from the installation – are displayed alongside a set of blurry black and white photographs of modernist buildings taken by Hartley in California.
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