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objects distinct from objectification / infinite potential inside a single fragment /  in the prestigious decor constructed specifically for this purpose / building as noun and verb is to say that buildings happen / the unexpected afterlives / physical space > translated space > space on the page > space made in the mind /  what cannot be forgotten reappears in dreams / hasard objectif / like getting blood from a stone / passing time <> passage of time / objects within the landscape or in spite of it / 






















A former school building in an Estonian village is heated by thirteen wood-burning stoves. I used salvaged bricks to borrow some of their heat, like a kind of heat battery, and transfer it into a pair of new steel benches.

On the opening of the exhibition we toured the benches through the town as the steel slowly took up heat from the bricks.

Steel tube, steel box-section, threaded rod, hardware, wheels, plywood, firewood;
1500 x 500 x 650mm    and;
1500 x 265 x 500mm

Produced at VARES arhitektuuriresidentuur, within the framework of Tartu 2024 European Capital of Culture.