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Small House of Giants | Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbane, Lyon | Rendez-Vous 13
"Small house of giants", found object, wood, metal, gypsum, paint, 2012
produced with support of PinchukArtCentre 2012 & IAC, Villeurbane Lyon 2013
"Small house of giants" is a combined object, kind of architectural collage, which's parts are living container for builders from 1970s and a model of facade of geometric form referring to Soviet neo-modernist architecture of the same period. "Small house of giants" is a reflection on the shifting social role of the worker within the new capitalist environment in Ukraine. On the other hand this object opens a critical discourse on the fictive heroical position that workers held in the Soviet past.
Photos copyright Bert de Leenheer, galerie Transit Mechelen, 2013