Out.View.Look.Point
In Out.View.Look.Point I use the grid of a panelák, a utilitarian high-rise building, to think about the ubiquitous place of block housing architecture in the cultural history of Eastern Europe. By placing this structure against fragments of pastoral landscapes, I look to re-imagine the panelák as a living monument despite the region’s prevailing sentiment that it is a failed utopian dream. Now that I no longer reside in the Balkans, I see block housing as mundane yet strangely outlandish. It is façades that frame “views”. It is grey concrete that turns orange at sunset. It is uniformity only from far away.
