Marlon de Azambuja
Brutalismo Americano
Following a series of related works, Brutalismo Americano by Marlon de Azambuja is a site-specific sculptural installation by Marlon de Azambuja and was produced during his residency at Kadist in San Francisco. Treating the city as an object of attention, he collected building materials from across the area to conceive of an architecture in situ. The work is not meant to mimic any of San Francisco’s own architecture, or to be a maquette or portrait of the cityscape, but instead a singular, constructive gesture. Appearing exactly as they are, the large mass of tiles, bricks, and glass are stacked into individual buildings. Carefully raised upward and resting on a few small points, Brutalismo Americano mobilizes a thinking process about the forces that give shape to the place you live and work, and to the values that suspend them.