Critic and writer Arie Amaya
Akkermans discussing the
installation "Abandoned Dwellings.
Typology 3.1.2. Burnt Ceiling",
wall part of the exhibition "A
Yellow Sun. A Black Sun" curated
by Karina El Helou at March Art
Project, Istanbul. 7 September
2021
In parallel to the geographic
arrangement of 10.777 photographs
documenting the 750 abandoned
buildings, a second classification
made it possible to categorise
them based on their typology. This
classification is divided in six
sections:
1. Architecture
(exterior)
2. Architecture
(interior)
3. Conditions
and Conservation
4. Intervention, Transformation
5. Documents and
objects
6. Organism
The Sursock Museum exhibition
(2018) consists of 19
LCD screens (20 cm wide
approx.), each displaying a
series of typologies photographs
from sections 2.1. and 2.2
displays section 2, segments 2.1
(Space) and 2.2 (Surface).
2. Architecture (interior)
2.1. Space
2.1.1.
Bathroom
2.1.2.
Corridor
2.1.3. Central
hall
2.1.3.a. axial
view
2.1.3.b.
longitudinal view
2.1.4.
Enfilade
2.1.5. Kitchen
2.1.6. Lobby
(apartment building, hotel)
2.1.7.
Mezzanine
2.1.8. Stairs
2.1.9.
Vestibule (in apartment,
house)
2.2.
Surface
2.2.1. Ceiling
2.2.2. False
ceiling
2.2.3.
Flooring (tiles, marble, wood
flooring)
2.2.4.
Mashrabiya, openwork and
stained glass
2.2.5.
Mouldings and stucco
2.2.6. Niche
2.2.7.
Painting (mural), fresco
2.2.8.
Panelling
2.2.9.
Wallpaper
The installation at Martch Art
Project (2021) displays seven
prints from Section
3.1.2. Burnt
ceiling, wall
The installation at Fotofocus
Cincinnati (2022) displays
sections:
4.2.16. Wall,
fortification in cinderblock
4.2.17.
Wall, fortification in
concrete
4.2.18.
Wall, fortification in metal
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Photo credit: David Ross
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exhibitions
- Abandoned Dwellings, Display
of Systems. Curated by Karina
el-Helou, Sursock Museum,
Beirut, 2018. >> website
- A Yellow Sun.
A Black Sun, curated by Karina
El Helou, Martch Art Project,
Istanbul, 2021 >> website
- All Falls
Down: Architectural Heritage
Effaced, curated by Saad
Ghosn. Fotofocus Biennial,
World Record. Cincinnati, 2022
>> website
selected
reviews
- Hyperallergic,
06'12'2018
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