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In collaboration with Public Space With A Roof

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Story about a project for the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland, that was canceled two weeks before its realization. It was intended to become an installation of three intersecting Moebius strips 'circling' around the gallery, functioning as a platform to exhibit works of other artists. Finally only a model of this structure was created and photographed with a pinhole camera. On the images, the structure is still visible, but their blurry and foggy atmosphere shows a different universe, closer to the world of dreams and imagination. The book includes 17 series of photographs, each of them offering a slightly different imaginary walk through the structure, accompanied by fragments of texts by several individuals who inspired the artists while working on the project: Vladimir Odoevsky, Frederick Kiesler, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, Juhani Pallasmaa, Italo Calvino, and Steven Holl. The book also contains a theoretical reflection on the artistic process and experience of cancelling a project.

Artists’ Book

Passages Through (the Unfinished Monument)

by Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander

Publisher
Release Place Amsterdam, Netherlands
Release Date 2010
Credits
Editor: Vesna Madzoski
Designer: Roger Willems
Printrun 1000
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978 90 77459 42 3
Original Price 10.28 EUR
Dimensions 20.0 × 13.0 cm
Pages 192

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