In Jorge Otero-Pailos' installations, the act of preservation is freed from its historic investment in stabilizing architecture. In The Ethics of Dust, he employs the cutting edge of conservation science to probe cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic definitions of architecture as it intersects with science and psychoanalysis.
Language
English
Pages
103
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Walther Konig Verlag
Release
February 28, 2010
ISBN
3865606555
ISBN 13
9783865606556
Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
In Jorge Otero-Pailos' installations, the act of preservation is freed from its historic investment in stabilizing architecture. In The Ethics of Dust, he employs the cutting edge of conservation science to probe cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic definitions of architecture as it intersects with science and psychoanalysis.