“Foundations” focuses on the current state of buildings and structures from the recent past, abandoned to the weight of time. Deserted, destroyed, corroded — these spaces once served as engines of society: places of production, meetings, services, ideas, collectives, and communities.
Once again, Belovski appears to depart from a contemporary trend such as urbex culture, combining nostalgia for modernism with a fascination for the “ruins of the future,” yet his individual perspective fragments the idyll of observation. Through detail, structure, and the very foundations themselves, the artist inserts his own imaginary projections of the “here and now” as an intertwining of reality and imagination, architecture and personal projection, a play of form, colour, and memory.
The works, created using acrylic, plywood, plexiglass, cement, pencil, and photography, materialise both the constructivist hope that architectural structures could create new forms of society, and the memory that collective utopias inevitably produce their own decay.
Is it still possible today to imagine a shared future without returning to past utopias? Is there still a space in which we can meet outside nostalgia, simulation, and the virtual?
