2006
Lightjet C-prints on Ultramount, 32" x 44"
edition of 5 + 2 A/P each
view all / full size : 19 images
The series a repurposed architecture explores a building complex in transition in Istanbul, Turkey. Üsküdar Imam Hatip Lisesi, which had previously been used as a monastery, a prison, and a school, and is now slated to become studios and instructional space for the fine arts university, was explored over the course of a week in 2006. This space held a certain fascination given its state of disrepair and moreso its age and novelty in comparison to the frequent use of Modernist concrete forms in Vancouver and the Netherlands. The continual repurposing of space is somewhat different from the predominant tendency—as evidenced in Vancouver, with its persistent and accelerating construction boom—to replace rather than re-use. The images in a repurposed architecture attend to the Romanticist history of an aesthetic fascination with the past and decay, while referencing contemporary forms such as the work of Gabriel Orozco and Jeff Wall's Diagonal Composition series.
a repurposed architecture was presented in May & June, 2008 in a solo exhibition at Republic Gallery.
