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Ahmet Öğüt, Exploded City (installation view), Ahmet Ogut © 2009
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Jan 24, 2010 – Apr 11, 2010
Wednesdays–Sundays (11am–5pm)
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$8
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Large-scale models recreating the structural causalities of recent acts of terrorism form the clumpy, futuristic metropolis of Ahmet Öğüt’s Exploded City. Destroyed landmarks from Turkey, Yugoslavia, and America are crowded together in an improbable, meticulous jumble of architecture. Öğüt stuffs the scenery to the brim, filling out gaps with un-triggered car bombs and a thick accompanying textual narrative that imagines the city as a contemporary tower of Babel with bits of Slavic, Altaic, and Urdu comprising the linguistic din. Surveying this ür-city, we are left to ponder the question: can new life spring from destruction?
