Built Transcendence

“Built Transcendence is an 20-page newspaper edition (55gsm improved) with a print run of 20 copies, published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name in Neo Ionia (Greece) in 2025. The publications cover a series of heterotopias photographed head-on, ranging from hotels, embassies, churches to cemeteries. All photos where taken in winter and summer of 2024/2025 in Athens and surrounding cities.

Assembled Patterns is a co-authorized project by Evelyn Vanoverbeke and Aaron Daem founded in 2023. Operating between Brussels and Athens their practice takes the spatial and architectural conditions of these cities as a starting point to investigate the reciprocal relationship between the urban environment and the framework of representations it embodies."

"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.

Folded sheets, 37 x 29 cm, 20 not numbered pages, ed/20, n.p. 2025