Marjetica Potrc: Urgent Architecture
by Marjetica Potrč
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Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc discovers rare energy and integrity in "unplanned" urban landscapes: the shantytown, the trailer park, the barrio. She finds in the "temporary city" ways of celebrating life and the beauty of shared needs. "We all seek the same things," Potrc states, "shelter, food, water, and beauty." Known for her ingenious reimagining of architectural structures, Potrc constructs here a massive installation of housing units based on what she has seen of gated communities show more and temporary shelters (which have become permanent) in Caracas, the West Bank, and West Palm Beach. This complex and visually arresting architectural collage, commissioned by the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, is a monolithic testimony to the power of art and architecture in shaping the human environment. In her site-specific Hybrid House at the PBICA, Potrc explores how shared human desires are satisfied in the ways people build a "home." "My work is not about social criticism or institutional critique," Potrc says, "rather, I'm trying to show what I see today in cities, for instance, low and high cultures having similar goals. I see beauty in gated communities and shantytowns, and in both cases it's kind of primitive." Marjetica Potrc: Urgent Architecture features essays by PBICA director and exhibition curator Michael Rush, independent curator Carlos Basualdo, and architect Liyat Esakov, and a conversation between Potrc and architect Eyal Weizman. Book jacket. show lessTags
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