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BUILD AND DESTROY

David De Beyter

  • 23 x 32 cm
  • Soft cover
  • Printed dust jacket recto-verso
  • Red hot foil stamping
  • 176 pages
39€

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In Flanders, between 2014 and 2020, David De Beyter gained acceptance and trust in the “Big Bangers” community of stock car enthusiasts who demolish or burn vehicles that would otherwise be consigned to the scrap heap for the beauty of the gesture and the sheer nihilistic pleasure of the spectacle. Each wreck resulting from this destructive practice is called an “auto sculpture” in the community’s lingo. De Beyter’s immersive project thus involved a combined artistic and anthropological approach, as is evident in Build and Destroy. In its very format, the book resonates with the experience of destruction as observed by the artist and offers an aptly fragmentary reading of this brutal culture. Bringing together photographs, photograms from 16 mm films and extracts from family archives, Build and Destroy offers itself as a visual essay that examines the material as subject as much as it investigates the formal possibilities opened up by the materiality of images.