URBANIZATION GARGOYLES (2010) by Kristiina Koskentola

　　The installation Urbanization Gargoyles 2010 investigating the interconnections within the urbanizing, thorn down Beijing and it’s socio-political context: the loss of traditional values, environment and social conditions due to rapid urbanization

　　In the installation the imaginary beasts, the gargoyles, are transformed into small size sculptures of dead dogs, domestic animals. The installation consists of a wall built from bare constructions elements, the sculpture dogs placed next to the wall, as gargoyles. The installation is dividing the space into four elements or Cardinal directions.

　　In the photo series the sculpture gargoyle/dog is placed different locations, reflecting on the relation between the transformed gargoyle and its environment.

　　Kristiina Koskentola, (Artist, MFA, FI/NL) is based in Amsterdam. She works with a wide range of media: installation, interventions in public space, video and photography.

　　Kristiina Koskentola has been working for long periods on her on-going research in China since 2007. Her work traverses in geography as well as in time. The flux between the integration and disintegration of object, subject, time and space plays a big role in this work. The created conditions are between perception and interpretation, not only a subject-object relationship, not static but rather a movement or process that conjures it’s own structure.

　　Recently she has published the book Trans-Actions, a publication investigating her projects in China and Mongolia and has exhibited in the Zendai Moma in Shanghai, Gallery Huang Yan Contemporary Art Space in Beijing, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, W139, Amsterdam Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki and 4th Baku Biennial of Conceptual Art, in Azerbaijan, among other places.