• The Collapsed Obelisk

    建一座倒塌的方尖碑

  • N38°53’21.35" W77°2’6.48" by DevolutioN

    N38°53’21.35" W77°2’6.48" by 退化建筑

  • DevolutioN Studio built a collapsed architecture on Shanghai fashion week ONTIME SHOW. We mimic an obelisk which was made by precisely-cut granite and demanded great cost. It was a temporary installation with simple materials. The obelisk exhibited for three days from April 8th to April 10th in Shanghai West Coast Art District.
    退化建筑在上海时装周ONTIME SHOW上建了一座倒塌的建筑。仿造了一种精密切割、严丝合缝，需要投注生命建造、代表永恒的建筑样式——方尖碑（Obelisk）。却以简易的材料和极其临时的状态，让其在4月8日-4月10日的上海西岸艺术区临时存在了三天。
  • General view of N38°53’21.35" W77°2’6.48"

    N38°53’21.35" W77°2’6.48" 作品全貌

  • The obelisk was not only a virtual SANKUANZ Church for fashion designer Mr. Shangguan Zhe, but also a multimedia installation and performance platform for Swiss artist agency SUPERMAFIA／ENCOR Studio.
    这座倒坍的方尖碑既是服装设计师上官喆的虚拟教堂SANKUANZ Church，又是瑞士艺术家团体SUPERMAFIA／ENCOR Studio多媒体装置和表演的剧场。
  • Work arranged based on the central axis

    Centre Sankuanz 展厅根据中轴线来布置作品

  • N38°53’21.35″ W77°2’6.48″ is a fictional set of coordinates. While designing this structure, we have stolen the shape of Washington monument (N38°53’21.34” W77°2’6.49’’) – a four-sided narrow tapering column with a pyramidion at the top.
    N38°53’21.35″ W77°2’6.48”是一个虚构的坐标。我们在设计这个建筑方案时挪用了华盛顿纪念碑(N38°53’21.34″ W77°2’6.49″)的造型——一个尖顶的、自下而上逐渐缩小的方柱体。
  • The base and entrance of the collapsed obelisk

    倒塌的方尖碑的基座与入口

  • A collapsed obelisk provides a peek at the unknown. The audience starts from the east and goes on towards the west along the long axis of the obelisk, mimicking the movement of believers inside a religious architecture. The peek, overlapped with a religious experience, is baptized by science, technology and fashion. Religion always befriends or fights politics and science. Yet its form of existence persists ever with the succession of the old ones by the new ones. Thus, the precision of the coordinates never matters. They serve only as a mark of the temporality of eternal faith and the uncertainty between something collapsed and something to be erected.
    一座倒塌的Obelisk提供了一次对这种不可知的窥探。自东向西，沿长轴前进，进一步临摹宗教建筑的信众运动方向，窥视与宗教体验重叠，却受洗于科技和时尚。宗教、政治与科技的交媾或斗争在外任其发生，宗教形式从未灭亡，只是旧与新的轮替。这个坐标是否准确因此并无意义，它只是标注了一种永恒信仰的临时性，倒塌与待建立的悬而未决。
  • The interior space of the collapsed obelisk

    倒塌的方尖碑内部空间

  • Coordinate

    N38°53’21.35" W77°2’6.48” 坐标

  • The outline of the obelisk at night

    夜幕下的方尖碑轮廓

  • (Author) Wang Qi
    (Translator) Lin Xiao
    (Film Director) Yang Lutong
    (Film Editors) Wang Haiqing
    (Photographer) Xu Xiaodong
    (撰文) 王琦
    (翻译) 林枭
    (视频导演) 杨鹿童
    (视频剪辑) 王海清
    (摄影) 许晓东