Exhibition: Unknown, Tate Modern London

Gunther Forg 1952
Born Germany, works Switzerland

Children's Holiday Camp, Calambrone 1986
Colonia Marina, Calambrone
Photograph on Paper

In the 1930's the fascist party in italy established a network of summer holiday camps for children. Located by the sea or in the mountains, their purpose was to provide moral and physical instruction, thus ensuring the future 'glory' of the Italian race. These modernist buildings are typical of fascist structures of the period. In this work and in children's holiday camp at Chiavari (also in this room), Forg depicts them in a deserted and dilapidated state, in gloomy or wet weather, highlighting the totalitarian implies which marred the utopian dream of such modernist architecture.

Guy Tilim 1962 

Born and works South Africa 

From Avenue Patrice Lumumba 

Apartment Building, Beira, Mozambique 2008

Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique 2008

Apartment building, Avenue Bagamoyo, Beira, Mozambique 2008

Photographs on paper

Gunther Forg 1952

Born Germany, works SWitzerland 

Children's Holiday Camp at Chiavari 1986

Colonia Marina di Chiavari 

Photograph on paper 

Marwan Rechmaoui 1964

Born and Works Lebanon 

Monument For the Living 2001-2008

Concrete and wood 

Monument for the living is a scale model of the Burj Murr building in Beirut, Lebanon. The tower was owned by members of the el-Murr family, a prominent political clan. Construction began in 1974 but it was left unfinished after the outbreak of civil war. Originally an office block, it was only ever used as a sniper outpost. The tower is too tall to knock down and too dense to implode, and so continues to dominate the skyline. It is now seen as a memorial to the internal conflict that has never been resolved.