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benjamenjudd: “The 2009 series ‘The Blocks’ draws together...

benjamenjudd:

“The 2009 series ‘The Blocks’ draws together images of the housing estates built in Belgrade in the 1950s and 1960s, which Benjamin Beker has manipulated by adding or taking out floors and facades and combining them into striking aggregate arrangements.The Blocks are a series of monolithic structures designed in accordance with the utilitarian edicts of High Modernism; architectural emblems of socialist idealism that were built to house government offices, but which also became home to thousands of Belgrade citizens. Beker re-configures their brutalist concrete syntax by removing them from their original context and placing them on a plain grey background, thus neutralising their socio-political charge and transforming them into harmonised geometric configurations.

Becker combines elements of reality to make artificial constructs in a way which resembles the curious nature of Yugoslavia – which was a melding of different nations into an artificial whole. These images have come to form the units of his work; photographs that reflect the curiously composite nature of Yugoslavia through their deconstructive play with the registers of fiction and documentary.”

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abandonedporn: Rani Ki Vav (The Queen’s Stepwell) - Gujarat,...

abandonedporn:

Rani Ki Vav (The Queen’s Stepwell) - Gujarat, India

abandonedporn: Ta Prohm, Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

abandonedporn:

Ta Prohm, Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

abandonedporn: A Decaying Car

abandonedporn:

A Decaying Car

abandonedporn: Hasard Cheratte, an abandoned Belgian coal...

abandonedporn:

Hasard Cheratte, an abandoned Belgian coal mine.

abandonedporn: An abandoned resort in Sanchih, northern Taiwan....

abandonedporn:

An abandoned resort in Sanchih, northern Taiwan. (by avant1997)