Bernd Behr
Weimar Villa (Unreconstructed) (2010)

Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, Gallery 1
10:00-18:00 Tuesday - Sunday

Weimar Villa (Unreconstructed) depicts a series of uniform white concrete housing shells set amidst mounds of dug-up earth. Shot on the construction site of a new Bauhaus-themed gated community in China, Bernd Behr’s video chronicles part of a recent New Town development designed by Albert Speer Jr.The initial documentary nature of the video soon gives way to more ambiguously archaeological readings where distinctions between the new and ancient are suspended.Screened in reverse, Weimar Villa (Unreconstructed) shows an endless cycle of construction and excavation, leaving the development to drift between an incomplete destination and an uncertain origin.