Florian Claar

Tachikawa Site

1999

FRP,  6,5 m x 1,4 m x 1,65 m

Tachikawa International Art Festival /Japan

Hong Kong - Kowloon

2002 

C-Print on Aluminum-panel 

2000 mm x 1500 mm

Hong Kong - Causeway Bay

2002,

C-Print on Aluminum-panel 

2000 mm x 1500 mm

Excavations is a series of installations and large prints of photographic works created between 1999 and 2002, which focus on discoveries at unexpected places. Things found were they should not be, like the black monolith buried under the moon’s surface in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. The process of reconstruction backstories from a few fragments is very imaginative. The more fragmentary and unknown a site is, the more it becomes a place for imagination and myths.