Makeshift

2021

reflective polyester fabric, sand, barbed wire

Each of these works plays with an elemental dichotomy – the collision of heigh and low needs and technologies. The elaborate technological reach of inter-planetary documentation renders images of the same stuff as fills sacks in the basest of defensive architectures. The sandbag too stands as a unit of construction developed for the most displaced people on earth, and what could be more displaced than the surface of a distant world? There is a dress swap at work here, where hi-tech fabric clothes a rudimentary sandbag tower, while near-obsolete analogue photography is used to produce irrationally unique reproductions of digital images readily available online.

340 cm, Diameter 100 cm

dimensions variable

Kilian Rüthemann

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