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The Office of Arcana

The Office of Arcana is a memory, or maybe a foretelling. It is a segment of a larger Office, a place where there are more corridors, more rooms. In this fragment there are only six. At the end of each corridor is a closed door, and through the window of each door can be seen further spaces. The starting point for the installation was a series of ideas that connected certain historical and contemporary military developments with the history of arcane thought in the UK. Link to video interview about the project produced by MoCA Taipei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QuJsiUxmCQ
Aoywyicteuugwuxuuybea Duncan Mountford

Ruin of the Near Future

Crystal Egg, 2014

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