mounir fatmi Morocco, 1970
The Monuments, 2008
Ceramic helmets.
5 parts: 35 x 25 x 17 cm. each.
Edition 5 of 5
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Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu...many are the names of the intellectuals and modern Western thinkers who have...
Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu...many are the names of the intellectuals and modern Western thinkers who have constituted the theories, systems, critiques and ideological structures with which, or against which, the contemporary world is built. By maintaining a consistently critical, sometimes revolutionary, view of ethics, politics, sociology, epistemology, art or language, these men are the builders of modern and post-modern thought.Their names inscribed on building site hard hats immediately suggest the notion of construction and at first sight provide a formal means to create a link with architecture, which goes beyond the notion of constructing a frame, creating a shift towards a way of formulating thought, its history and its connections. If thought is both a construction and construction material, systems of thought are built up into architecture, a different sort of architecture. The parallel between workman’s work and a piece of work that is constituted by the structuring of an idea, a theory or a political system is evident here.