When World’s Collide [2020]
CREDIT INFORMATION
When Worlds Collide, 2020
Polyamide 12 nylon 3D print, spray paint
Dimensions variable for each
1. L14 x W15 x H5 in
2. L15 x W15 x H10 in
Limited edition of five.
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.
Of five editions of the pair of sculptures, one was split and donated: 1 was auctioned by Flux Factory’s 2025 Annual Artists Auction; 2 was auctioned for CUE Arts Foundation What’s left in the Remaking benefit.