The catalogue of the Belgian-American artist’s architectural and video installation, at the crossroads of different disciplines, conceived by Cécile B. Evans herself.
Cécile B. Evans’ architectural video installation Amos’ World is conceived as a television show set in a socially progressive housing estate. The show, divided into episodes, follows an architect called Amos and the inhabitants of the housing estate. Viewers are first introduced to Amos and some of the tenants, each individual interwoven into the larger infrastructure of Amos’ building. His comfortable perch takes a turn when his perfect individual-communal fantasy for the Capitalist age begins to crumble as the tenants fail to conform to the behaviours he had envisaged. Fissures in this carefully constructed network reveal a breakdown of person-to-person and person-to-infrastructure power dynamics. Seemingly free from the pressures of an outside environment but with a visibly constricted view—how has the networked age impacted the irreconcilable gap between individual rights and the controlling nature of the systems that create them?
Published following the eponymous exhibitions at Mumok, Vienna (2018), MADRE, Naples (2019), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2019) and FRAC Lorraine – 49 Nord 6 Est, Metz (2020).
Published by Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Köln, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König · Edited by Marianne Dobner & Cécile B. Evans · Hardcover · 21.8 x 31.3 cm · 216 pages · English/German · ISBN 3960986149