Shipwreck Theatre

Contemporary culture’s credible catastrophism collides critically with our seemingly endless desire for the theatricalisation of everyday life, and its suffusion with masochistic morality. The Shipwreck Theatre celebrates this complex enigma, with all of its contradictory cravings, and anxious ambivalence.

The project was made in the manner of a René Magritte “problem painting” wherein a first object appears as a subject of sustained interest and it inspires a long pursuit for a second object that was its matching pair. After a year and a half contemplation, I found the word within myself, shipwreck. This word produced the most varied and wild results because each term is cinematically vivid, and their juxtaposition is unprecedented.

Digital Images, 2022.

This final image will be published here later in 2024:

Weir, S., Rich, S. (2024) “Shipwreck Architecture”
Footprint - Delft Architecture Theory Journal, 31, 49-63.