“Starting from the premise that repetition is not what it seems and that repetition does not actually exist in nature but is in fact a perceptual game, the publication ‘Built Transcendence’ brings together a series of photographed heterotopias — a neologism introduced by Michel Foucault in 1966. Based on similar typologies and external characteristics in architectural heterotopias such as hotels, embassies, churches, etc., the publication questions what architecture is and what it represents, in which it explores the boundary between the physical, the transcendental and the signification that architecture conveys.
Heterotopia refers to a constructed space that is neither entirely private nor entirely public, but instead lies in between: an intermediate or mediating space where the continuity of time and experience is disrupted, in which different layers of worlds are constituted in the architecture itself.”
A series of full-page b/w photographs taken in Athens of churches, embassies, cemeteries, parks and other architectural features.
Assembled Patterns consists of Evelyn Vanoverbeke and Aaron Daem.
Folded sheets, 37 x 29 cm, 20 not numbered pages, ed/20, n.p. 2025
