Time stands still when I think of you (2010)
Installation views at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Paper, cardboard, foamcore, adhesives, spray paint. 1:1 scale models, dimensions variable. Photos: Geoff Parrington.
‘Time stands still when I think of you’ is a sculptural installation that reflects on the shifting space of Berlin as traces of its past disappear through gentrification. Once integral to the city's spatial, psychological and political reality, construction sites, abandoned buildings and fenced-off in-between zones were reflective of transition and creative possibilities. As the city has become increasingly gentrified, these spaces and the construction debris that littered them have slowly disappeared and been replaced with a fetishised reproduction of what was. ‘Time stands still when I think of you’ mourns this loss ambiguously, presenting slick paper models of construction site debris that is devoid of gritty history and recuperated as fetishised design.