Borrowing its evocative title from a fundamental essay by Alexei Yurchak on the last Soviet generation before the fall of the Eastern Block, Konrad Smolenski gives his installation Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More in the Polish Pavillion - a stereophonic system composed of two handmade bells flanked by two rows of broadband speakers and two walls of metal cases - the role of a sentinel of change and, in its foreboding character, that on an interpretation of anxieties and fears.
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250 pgs, Hardback, 2013,