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"I made a film a few years ago in the Sonsbeek Pavilion. It’s a sculpture pavilion designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld. He designed it in the mid 50s as a temporary sculpture, then it was rebuilt in the mid 60s after he died as a type of memorial to him. It’s in the park of the Kröller-Müller museum in Holland. It houses sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and is actually quite beautiful in terms of that mid-century modernism. It really encapsulates this idea about the relationship between modernism and the ruin, because in a way its like an unfinished building, or a building as a type of fragment. It’s a type of shell, more than anything. A very elaborate bus stop!"

Gerard Byrne, artist