Bank of Central African States, Yaounde, 2020
Western City Gate, Belgrade, 2020
Rowell Court, Singapore, 2020
Salam Tower, Doha, 2020
New Taipei City Hall, New Taipei City, 2020
The artist is fascinated by the aesthetics of modernist and postmodernist buildings. With their gigantic size, their concrete facades, they reflect a fascination for the aesthetics of “global&rdquo architectures. The artist’s inspiration is drawn from buildings in Yaunde, Doha, Belgrade, and New Taipei City. The buildings are not portrayed as static but are imagined as a “flux,” crossed by roads, connected in a whirlwind of constructions and infrastructure.
As the artist says,
I have never been to the aforementioned cities, but the buildings all seem familiar to me, as if I had seen them in Beijing or Shanghai before they were torn down. In the last four decades, in the rapid urbanization movement […], remembering the past becomes an act that could only be supported by the imagination.
Here the work plunges us into the symbolic dimension of post-modern mythology and thus invites us to start sorting out the architectural heritage of global architecture.