Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrč’s work often investigates the clash between the strict order of modernism’s architectural and urban schemes and their inhabitants’ needs and desires. Her 2011 installation, In a New Land, reconstructs a single module of Zvi Hecker’s Ramot Polin housing project, nicknamed “the Beehive” for its distinctive structure. The work includes an example of one of the self-built rectangular additions which many inhabitants have added to the dodecahedral layout, which “interrupt” the project’s strict formal coherence. Potrč presents this action as an inspiring, bottom-up critique of modern concepts of a “functional city” and as a “balkanisation” of an ideology that puts the purity of form before people’s freedom of choice in determining how they want to live. p (fh)
Marjetica Portč: “In a New Land” at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2011.
(Photo: Gerhard Kassner, courtesy the artist and the gallery)
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