THE BLOCKS

The Blocks are a collection of manipulated images of eponymous housing estates, ostensibly built on dried marshland in Belgrade in the 1950s and 60s. These buildings were to house government offices, but also became – within a highly socialist ideal – home to thousands of Belgrade citizens. The Blocks, as these buildings have come to be known, are a series of large, monolithic structures adhering in their design to the strict functional edicts of architects such as Le Corbusier. By placing the core form of each building on a plain grey background I transformed each building form the everyday and utilitarian, to a patterned form that has a delicate beauty to it. As with earlier work I re-present a familiar image as something toy-like and unthreatening.