Brendan Fernandes

2008

Pulsing with dramatic lighting that signals S-O-S in morse code, this towering installation stands thirty-five feet high. Constructed out of shipping containers, it addresses the trauma of migration, displacement and change. The project is Influenced by Moshe Safdie's utopic Habitat housing scheme produced for the 1967 Montreal Exposition and designed with the dream of including all people regardless of class, race or gender. This monumental structure reflects on the failure of this Modernist ideology and the susceptibility of these social projects to capitalist forces. Future (· · · - - - · · ·) Perfect has a local relevance, reflecting on the politics of gentrification and the displacements inherent to the project of urban renewal.