Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot, Antimonuments 1964-2013, 2017, Suspended Architecture, Botkyrka konsthall’s archive, 2025 Photo: Mini Davarasl
Suspended Architecture
Maria Lalou and Skafte Aymo-Boot
10 April – 22 April 2025, Botkyrka Konsthall’s Archive
Since 2012, Lalou and Aymo-Boot have been working together on [UN]FINISHED, their ongoing research into incomplete concrete buildings in Athens. At Botkyrka Konsthall, they present the work Antimonuments 1964–2013, 2017 in Labyrint and the video work The Experts Meeting, 2021 in the Archive.
In Suspended Architecture, the two works describe changes that have taken place in Greek legislation that affect buildings standing as concrete skeletons in the city, where construction cannot be completed. As a result, these buildings are preserved in their unfinished state forever.
This leads to a kind of antimonument: an open concrete structure without any clear cultural-historical value, preserved by law as an unusable space within the city. With its character as a ruin without purpose, the unfinished building points simultaneously to the past and the future, as a frozen moment preserved since the building’s volume reached its current concrete state.
The exhibition Suspended Architecture focuses on the unfinished — a condition that holds unrealized potential and brings to light a collection of hidden stories that reveal social, economic, and spatial aspects of the city.
Suspended Architecture
Maria Lalou and Skafte Aymo-Boot
10 April – 22 April 2025, Botkyrka Konsthall’s Archive
Since 2012, Lalou and Aymo-Boot have been working together on [UN]FINISHED, their ongoing research into incomplete concrete buildings in Athens. At Botkyrka Konsthall, they present the work Antimonuments 1964–2013, 2017 in Labyrint and the video work The Experts Meeting, 2021 in the Archive.
In Suspended Architecture, the two works describe changes that have taken place in Greek legislation that affect buildings standing as concrete skeletons in the city, where construction cannot be completed. As a result, these buildings are preserved in their unfinished state forever.
This leads to a kind of antimonument: an open concrete structure without any clear cultural-historical value, preserved by law as an unusable space within the city. With its character as a ruin without purpose, the unfinished building points simultaneously to the past and the future, as a frozen moment preserved since the building’s volume reached its current concrete state.
The exhibition Suspended Architecture focuses on the unfinished — a condition that holds unrealized potential and brings to light a collection of hidden stories that reveal social, economic, and spatial aspects of the city.
