Clemens Behr – From the series Ruines Flottantes, Auditorium | Lyon, 2022
From the series Ruines Flottantes, Sainte-Marie | La Verpillière, 2022
From the series Ruines Flottantes, Cité des Étoiles | Givors, 2022

Prompted by the local heritage landscape, Clemens Behr realizes fleeting pop-up sculptural installations that exist only for the short time he needs to photograph them. His project for the 16th Lyon Biennale captures a number of architectural landmarks of the Lyon area (Sainte Marie-Lyon secondary school in La Verpillière; the Auditorium, home to the Orchestre National de Lyon; Musée Lugdunum; and the Cité des Étoiles housing estate in Givors). Over a series of fast interventions across these locations, Behr built and photographed his temporary structures. He then created a composite installation from the different elements used in the construction process, which he presented at the Fagor factories. Akin to set designs from a 1980s Science Fiction movie, Behr fuses the reconstruction of the old with the destruction of the future. His ruins probe the fragile utopias of Brutalist architecture, built for eternity on the promise of a better world.

Also on view at the Fagor factories.