Lynda Devenney
Ireland
Devenney is interested in the question of time as an immeasurable duration. Her practice employs various mediums – in particular, digital video and screen-printing – to convey and explore several recurring themes in her work, abandonment, identity of place and memory, all united through their specific relationship with architecture and time.
Architectonics of Time depicts a rundown bus station, a space of flux and transit. As an example of 1960s Brutalist architecture now threatened with demolition, it also demonstrates how a building can embody ideals that make it a physical expression of an era, ideals that become outmoded even if the building itself continues to serve its function.
(Text: reading the city catalogue, 2009)
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