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title: 'Gone with the Wind' media_order: GWW_Poster_w.jpg image_align: left date: 10-10-16
date_end: 06-01-2017
HeHe site specific artwork for the railway station area @ Beatrixgebouw Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, NL
10.10.16 – 06.01.17
Standing upright in the city, a small tower crane has undergone a change. The structure of the jib has mutated, into a variant form with an uncertain function. Contorted, it is a departure from the ordered geometry of an ordinary crane. It is as if some invisible force has begun a process of disintegration. The crane's jib, that should be carrying heavy weights, has in part been carried off by the wind.
Gone with the Wind alludes to a vanitas for our consumer-driven culture. It suggests the transient nature of man made objects and in particular modern technology. It is a visual reminder that what we make and build is temporary. Despite the vast building developments underway in the centre of the city, it hints that modernism, utopia and civilisation are actually rather fragile. As if the 'advances' that we make are actually just on the surface and that the whole edifice of progress and order could so easily collapse.