The Eastern Gate

2023

Mixed-media installation (sound sculpture with video)
Concrete, rebar, wood, acrylic mirror
4-channel audio
3-channel video

in collaboration with Daniel Lythgoe

Installation realized at the exhibition space „1001Perspektiven“ in Karlsruhe

"The Eastern Gate" is a sculptural audiovisual installation. It deals with the architectural heritage of socialist futurism in New Belgrade, Serbia.

The work with three distinctive building complexes in their role as cultural artifacts - fragments fixed in space yet divorced from a bygone ideological reality.

The overwhelming scale and structural diversity of the decaying fabric of these complexes is explored through field recordings and video footage taken over a six-month period. Three curved concrete sculptures serve as projection surfaces and as acoustic resonators for the generative multi-channel composition.

Individual sound and visual elements are introduced and modulated in alternating ways as unedited documentary exposition. They move between realistic representation and collage-like composition of utopian architectural spaces.