Tolia Astakhishvili with Jacksun Bein and Livia Polanyi

Half State

The trifold powers of architecture, its inhabitants and their languages are in a mutually dependent relationship of forces, which are constructed in this volume of the KONTEXT series. In drawings of architectural plans, Astakhishvili depicts buildings composed entirely of escape-paths. A space inescapable might become simply the finite landscape. In a memoir-style text of fragments by Jacksun Bein, the life of a child who refused to fully exit the womb is charted from conception to death. Through an across-the-oceans correspondence with the artist, Livia Polanyi explores how memory lives on between time and language.