When Worlds Collide [2020]
When Worlds Collide was commissioned by The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, in conjunction with solo exhibition What We Found After You Left (2020).
When Worlds Collide 1 and 2 imagine hybrid architectures conjured of fragments of six buildings featured in Two Meetings and a Funeral.
Revealing the various styles of ostentatious, masculinist architecture that served as vehicles for divergent ideologies in this period, the sculptures equally visualize a collision and intersection of these ideologies. In their form, the objects turn inside out the idea of a “pivot” moment of 1973-1974 that was central to Two Meetings positioning within its premiere at documenta 14 in Kassel.
1a: Luigi Moretti, Palais de Nation, Algiers, 1961.
1b: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka, 2001.
1c: Bazel M. Salune, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore, 1938.
2a: Oscar Niemeyer, La Coupole, Algiers, 1975.
2b: Oscar Niemeyer & Le Corbusier, UN General Assembly, New York City, 1952.
2c: Oscar Niemeyer, Houari Boumediene University of Science & Technology, Algiers, 1969.