Experiments’ Platform 2023

My ambition to ‘redefine the existing’ has been growing within me
and decay has become my focus. As Georges Descombes said, describing his
landscape project in Geneva, ‘I wanted [...] to begin something that was already
there.'1 I decided to redefine existing decay as beautiful in its gradual deterioration,
finding appealing elements in ageing objects. This appreciation of decay became
an intimate process.
1 Georges Descombes,
"Shifting Sites: The Swiss
Way, Geneva," 1999, 82.
Disappearing architecture, photo by
Eglė Kliučinskaitė, Kudrionys, 2023
Decay as an object of fascination, photo by
Eglė Kliučinskaitė, Kudrionys, 2023
Nature has swallowed the buildings – this was my first impression.
No longer the dominant feature, these buildings become simply minor elements
in nature. However, architecturally restricted eyes catch the visible and implied
proportions and the contrast between natural form and strict architectural lines.
The subtle lighting design along the main road evokes the carefully designed
details which characterise unique socialist architecture. I chose to stay with this
territory and these buildings for a while, visiting them often, mostly alone.
03.1 — Redefine the Existing
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