Untitled (Archive ST3: Military Hospital) is the continuation of the project Untitled (Archive ST3) that was started in 2015. The focus of the project lies in the re-contextualization of the 1960s architecture – in this case, of the former Military Hospital in Split. At the time of its construction, it was very advanced in its equipment, as well as in its approach to architecture and design.
The wall works are hybrids at the intersection between photography, relief, and object. It consists of digital prints of archival photographs of the hospital’s exterior taken in 1965, before the hospital’s inauguration. Each print is mounted on an aluminum board and forms a background for industrial filters for color correction that have been fixed to the photographs with fluorescent light tubes.
The print for the large wall work is mounted on the wall and forms a background for the construction of fluorescent tubes. The tubes form an isometric drawing that accentuates the constructivist roots of modernism.
The memory of the represented space is enhanced by the introduction of old bactericidal lamps and scrapped beds taken from the same hospital. With the form of a large installation structure made of iron beds, modernist elements of the architecture of the hospital’s main building are cited. The objects of utility themselves – as carriers of memory – are almost completely anonymized through the geometry of the verticals and horizontals of the newly created architecture.
The work questions the position of personal and social memory in relation to the heritage of modernist architecture.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Split Archives at the C24 Gallery, New York, USA in 2018.
The wall works are hybrids at the intersection between photography, relief, and object. It consists of digital prints of archival photographs of the hospital’s exterior taken in 1965, before the hospital’s inauguration. Each print is mounted on an aluminum board and forms a background for industrial filters for color correction that have been fixed to the photographs with fluorescent light tubes.
The print for the large wall work is mounted on the wall and forms a background for the construction of fluorescent tubes. The tubes form an isometric drawing that accentuates the constructivist roots of modernism.
The memory of the represented space is enhanced by the introduction of old bactericidal lamps and scrapped beds taken from the same hospital. With the form of a large installation structure made of iron beds, modernist elements of the architecture of the hospital’s main building are cited. The objects of utility themselves – as carriers of memory – are almost completely anonymized through the geometry of the verticals and horizontals of the newly created architecture.
The work questions the position of personal and social memory in relation to the heritage of modernist architecture.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Split Archives at the C24 Gallery, New York, USA in 2018.