René Descartes viewed the order and coherency of structures designed by a single architect as beautiful. However, the purpose of the ARCHISCULPTURE Photo Project is to create architectural sculptures by collaging photographs of diverse buildings from various architects. In this sense, ARCHISCULPTURE, like ancient cities built by multiple architects, can evoke romanticism due to the organically interconnected structures, but it may also not, because the artist BSW chooses which architectural forms to use as materials for the work based solely on his own perspective among the wide range of architectural works by numerous architects.
If there is a ‘punctum’ in photography, then the buildings used here will, in a certain way, become BSW’s ‘punctum’, and their assemblage will form the ARCHISCULPTURE.
This work may also bring together structures with political, economic, or social significance, allowing viewers to experience the illusion of a metropolis through the ‘studium’. Much like collectors who carefully arrange and classify their acquisitions, BSW analyses selected city fragments gathered from various places and creates sculptures from them. In this process, the collaged buildings are reborn as a single, beautiful sculpture, retaining the diachronic or synchronic histories of the original architectures, or encompassing them all.
As Russian film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein explained in relation to the montage technique, meanings that did not exist in each individual scene are newly created in the edited and interconnected whole. The collaging employed in the process of making ARCHISCULPTURE also generates new meanings that were not present in the individual buildings, while combining multiple structures. However, in any case, if we look at the work as it is, this is a non-existent sculpture with an architectural appearance, and the photograph that seems to have captured it is ARCHISCULPTURE.
