(Sculpture)

Home (Destroyed and re-constructed)
Diane Borsato
Toronto, 2007

Description:
After visiting several European cities I was thinking about all of the architecture that was destroyed and re-constructed after the second world war. Toronto is a kind of virgin city, with buildings as yet untouched by widespread violence and destruction.

I created an architectural model of the house in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto that I live in, and smashed it with a sledge hammer. I took it through a cycle of construction, destruction, and ultimately, re-constructed it from the ruins to look just as it was before.

Exhibition History:

The work was exhibited for the Cambridge Galleries for CAFKA, in the windows of the gallery at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. It was displayed in my larger exhibition entitled Neighbourhood, curated by Ivan Jurakic, which included the Home sculpture, photographs from the Skyline series, and versions of stolen flower arrangements from the Bouquet project. The exhibition was accompanied by a publication. Click here for the published text by Ivan Jurakic.