The Treasury Project Mark PowerMark Power's new series of colour photographs documents the recent comprehensive refurbishment of HM Treasury in London. In common with his previous work on the Millennium Dome, this new project follows the unfolding of a dramatic narrative, and in this case the transformation of space as a form of architectural trauma. But in these pictures Power is also sensitive to something less material. For emerging in his emphatic images of a ravaged and rebuilt interior structure there are the signs that something latent in the building itself has been released. This, Power suggests, can withstand the disturbance, and can possibly feed from it. It is a presence we might call the building's spirit of place, generated over centuries, and now through Power's photographs dictating the terms of its own renewal; finally revealed as something to be seen and felt.
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Year: 2002
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