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Secession: LARA ALMARCEGUI
Construction Rubble of Secession's Main Hall, Lara Almarcegui takes stock of the construction materials used to build the main hall of the exhibition building by heaping up piles of these materials.
Exhibition: September 10 - November 7
Lara Almarcegui’s projects examine processes of urban transformation driven by political, social, and economic changes.
In the Guides she has produced in several cities since 1999, she explores the past and future of certain areas, documenting the complex narratives inscribed upon them in photographs, site plans, analyses of the existing state of affairs, and field reports. Her research concentrates on places and situations that have either been neglected by urban and land-use planners, architects, and developers due to a one-sided focus on surface design and profits, or their structural and commercial development is immediately imminent: abandoned lots, contemporary ruins, or brownfields.
For the Secession, Lara Almarcegui is conceiving three new works. Two will analyze the specific architectonic structure of the Secession’s building, while the third project will engage the urban development area of Vienna’s Nordbahnhof railway station.
Lara Almarcegui renders visible what we otherwise fail to regard, see, or notice. She deconstructs in order to uncover——including a view of the utopia of the future. In Bauschutt Hauptraum Secession / Construction Rubble of Secession's Main Hall, Lara Almarcegui takes stock of the construction materials used to build the main hall of the exhibition building by heaping up piles of these materials——all products of recycling processes——a work that also considers a vision of a possible future use. The exhibition hall with its aura is transmuted into shapeless heaps. What would happen with these tons of concrete, wood, terrazzo, brick, mortar, glass, plaster, polystyrene, and steel if they were to return into the circulation of the construction industry? Which new constructions might arise out of the materials that now constitute the Secession’s main hall?
Lara Almarcegui (*1972 in Zaragoza) lives and works in Rotterdam.
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