Fragile Monuments

Olympic Village

Fragile Monuments

By Sami Ferra

Fragile Monuments (2021) explores the constructed world, creating accidental sculptures from found objects and challenging the physical properties of materials through the shaping of printed images. Two series will be exhibited at the Olympic Village Station as an installation with prints ranging in scale to create a dynamic composition. In artist Sami Ferra’s first series, the images are poetic encounters with the environment that appear as sculptures, but are really found objects. By isolating the materials from their contexts, Ferra creates compositions that offer a different view of raw materials charged with metaphorical potential. A second series pursues the materiality of photography by printing and manipulating prints and transforming them back into images. By photographing these deformed prints, Ferra highlights the absurdity and aberrations generated by the discrepancy between the materials shown and their original physical consistency. Through this work, photography and architecture collide and ask us to consider the potential found in the details of our ever-transforming world.

Sami Ferra is an architect and photographer who lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining image and object, his work questions the photographic medium in its representation of reality and offers a unique and refined vision of his environment.

This artwork is produced in collaboration with Booooooom, Capture Photography Festival and InTransit BC