« ABANDONED RE-IMAGINED »
jusqu'au 30 oct | until Oct 30
vernissage 9 oct 13h30 | Oct 9 ~ 1:30PM
biblioweb.ville.kirkland.qc.ca
Emptied of profit and utility, regardless of cause and despite their initial function, abandoned buildings are gradually embraced by neglect. A building begins to hide in plain sight, quietly rotting in the midst of a community filled with lively businesses and inhabited homes. Besides time's gentle destruction, abandoned buildings may also experience the depredations of curious trespassers and the material effects of their surrounding environment. It is the architecture's new life in this alternate, ruinous, exhausted state that fascinates us, and that we have attempted to record.
We began by photographing an eclectic range of buildings that were initially built for many different purposes -- a community centre, a warehouse and office, a shopping complex, and a strip-club. By considering buildings that were each (but are no longer) occupied for a separate and specific reason, we have produced a cohesive series. Documenting the process of dilapidation has revealed a general uniformity that only develops upon abandonment. Stripped of their identities, these places now have more in common with each other than they do with other constructions whose purpose they once shared.
ABANDONED RE-IMAGINED is a hybrid of analog photography and paint transforming purely visual information into a fantastical moment. It combines two inherently different art forms to counter the destruction of time by portraying a complex afterworld: a realm that only exists through reimagination. By refusing to restrict the images to one city or a single period of time, we have been able to manifest a universal concept unconfined by geographic limitations.
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