2025
Exhibition at WIELS Affiliate in Brussels, 13.–29.03.2025.
pause on the tree line shows a city that is constantly under construction. The images, all made in Brussels between 2020 and 2025 were shown alongside with the video exploring the withering building of the Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia in Skopje.
In Brussels, I followed the edges where work pauses and where something unfinished temporarily settles into a form. These observations take the shape of photographs that register not only the city’s material transitions but also the rhythms of moving through it, as well as a photocopy made from layered rubbings taken from different pieces of found OSB. Unlike the photographs, which follow moments encountered in the city, the OSB rubbings came out of a more tactile, material experiment: tracing the shifting textures of a surface that is itself assembled, temporary, and typically hidden within the built environment.
In Skopje, I spent several days in the museum and filmed while wandering through its corridors and half-abandoned exposition halls, observing the physical afterlife of an institution now largely left to decline.
Bringing the two cities together, the exhibition creates a dialogue between different forms of urban impermanence – one marked by endless reconstruction, the other by slow erosion.
The title of the exhibition was borrowed from Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red, Chapter XXIX Slopes (1998).