{"id":70,"title":"The Ruins of Our Time","dimensions":"12 x (70 x 100 cm)","date_begin":"2007-01-01","material":"photograph on di-bond","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":23,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":12,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2007-01-01","reference":"BK007728","stream_count_app":37,"permalink":"the-ruins-of-our-time","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Vahram Aghasyan","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Photography","nl":"Fotografie","fr":"Photographie"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/766/large/Vahram%20AghasyanCOLLECTIE%20XXVIIphoto%20M%20HKAclinckx.jpg?1302699739","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eArmenian artist\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eVahram Aghasyan\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;focuses on cultural and historical processes taking place in his homeland. With photos, videos and installations, he predominantly examines architectural structures stemming from the former Soviet Union, which are now relieved of their functionality, in their present socio-political context. The artist\u0026rsquo;s interest in abandoned suburban landscapes is no accident, since here one can see examples of modernist architecture, which elicits pity, sadness and also sympathy, for the incompletion and absurdity of these non-functional structures bring them closer to art, and thus endow them with functionality.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eThe photo series\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eRuins of our time\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;depicts deserted bus stops built in the 1960s and 70s. With their experimental concrete casting they today appear as rudiments of traffic planning in a no-man\u0026#39;s land. Unused, never completed and with no infrastructural purpose, they do possess relevance in regard to the politics of remembrance as monuments of a history not yet overcome. The brief moment of photographic exposure stands in contrast to the monumentality of the stones falling to ruins.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eDe fotoreeks \u003cem\u003eRuins of our Time\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003etoont verlaten bushaltes uit de jaren \u0026rsquo;60 en \u0026lsquo;70. Deze experimentele betonconstructies doen vandaag denken aan de eerste aanzet van een verkeersplan in een niemandsland. Hoewel ze ongebruikt en nooit afgemaakt zijn en geen infrastructureel doel hebben, zijn ze toch relevant voor de politiek van het geheugen, als monumenten van een geschiedenis die nog niet overwonnen is. Het kortstondige moment van fotografische blootstelling staat in contrast met de monumentaliteit van deze stenen in verval.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eArtiste arm\u0026eacute;nien,\u0026nbsp;\u003cstrong\u003eVahram Aghasyan\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;se concentre sur les processus culturels et historiques qui ont lieu dans son pays natal. Avec des photos, des vid\u0026eacute;os et des installations, il examine de mani\u0026egrave;re pr\u0026eacute;dominante les structures architecturales provenant de l\u0026#39;ex-Union Sovi\u0026eacute;tique, qui sont \u0026agrave; pr\u0026eacute;sent soulag\u0026eacute;es de leur fonctionnalit\u0026eacute;, dans leur actuel contexte socio-politique. L\u0026#39;int\u0026eacute;r\u0026ecirc;t de l\u0026#39;artiste pour les paysages de banlieue abandonn\u0026eacute;s n\u0026#39;est pas un accident car il est possible d\u0026#39;y voir des exemples d\u0026#39;architecture moderne, ce qui suscite la piti\u0026eacute;, la tristesse ainsi que la compassion pour le c\u0026ocirc;t\u0026eacute; inachev\u0026eacute; et l\u0026#39;absurdit\u0026eacute; de ces structures non fonctionnelles, les rapprochant ainsi de l\u0026#39;art et les dotant de fonctionnalit\u0026eacute;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eLa s\u0026eacute;rie de photos \u003cem\u003eRuins of our time\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;repr\u0026eacute;sente des arr\u0026ecirc;ts de bus d\u0026eacute;sert\u0026eacute;s, construits dans les ann\u0026eacute;es 60 et 70. Avec leur moulage exp\u0026eacute;rimental en b\u0026eacute;ton, ils ressemblent aujourd\u0026#39;hui \u0026agrave; des rudiments de planification routi\u0026egrave;re dans un no-man\u0026#39;s land. Inutilis\u0026eacute;s, jamais achev\u0026eacute;s et sans aucun objectif infrastructurel, ils poss\u0026egrave;dent une pertinence en ce qui concerne la politique de comm\u0026eacute;moration en tant que monuments d\u0026#39;une histoire pas encore surmont\u0026eacute;e. Le bref moment d\u0026#39;exposition photographique est en contraste avec l\u0026#39;aspect monumental des pierres qui tombent en ruines.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eDer armenische K\u0026uuml;nstler Vahram Aghasyan stellt \u0026uuml;ber den Spiegel der Architektur die kulturellen und historischen Prozesse seines Heimatlandes ins Zentrum seiner k\u0026uuml;nstlerischen Arbeiten. Anhand von Fotos, Videos und Installationen untersucht er vor allem ihrer Funktionalit\u0026auml;t enthobene architektonische Strukturen der ehemaligen Sowjetunion in ihrem heutigen gesellschafts-politischen Kontext.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:justify\"\u003eSeine Fotoserie \u003cem\u003eRuins of our time\u003c/em\u003e zeigt verlassene Bushaltestellen, deren experimentelle Betong\u0026uuml;sse, die zwischen den sechziger und siebziger Jahren gebaut wurden, mittlerweile als Rudimente verkehrspolitischer Planung im Niemandsland stehen. Unbenutzt, nicht fertig gestellt, fern jeder infrastrukturellen Bedeutung, sind sie als Monumente einer nicht einmal beseitigten Geschichte von erinnerungspolitischer Relevanz. Die K\u0026uuml;rze des fotografischen Belichtungsmoments kontrastriert mit der Monumentalit\u0026auml;t der in Stein zerfallenden Ruinen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":74,"name":"Vahram Aghasyan","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}