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Concretion

Cécile Beau

Cidade Matarazzo

Cidade Matarazzo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Rubble from the abandoned hospital—broken bricks and concrete—create a mineral organism. Like parasites, the debris clings to the architecture, multiplying and encrusting all over it. These forms are like new columns growing out of the foundations, rubble stalagmites slowly deposited by time. Everything here teeters somewhere between growth and petrification. The viewer wanders on a changed landscape, subject to the laws of another nature, where mineralisation has changed the scale of time into that of an autonomous organic process.

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  • Title: Concretion
  • Creator: Cécile Beau
  • Creator Lifespan: 1978 - -
  • Date: 2014/2014
  • Provenance: Images © Ding Musa; courtesy the artist
  • Type: installation
  • Rights: Images © Ding Musa / Images © Simon Schwyzer
Cidade Matarazzo

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