GHAZALEH AVARZAMANI

Strange Temporalities

Frieze sculpture Park edition
2019

Strange Temporalities is a reassemblage of a deconstructed plastic slide, dismantled into discrete components that once formed a continuous spiral structure. Displaced from its original function, the object becomes inert and precarious—an embodiment of failed utility and dislocated purpose.

By fragmenting a familiar form of collective infrastructure, the work reflects on processes of deconstruction, interruption, and loss. It examines how materials and designs intended for movement and continuity can, when reconfigured, evoke stasis and tension. Through this transformation, Strange Temporalities exposes the paradoxes embedded within systems of progress and productivity—where advancement often entails fragmentation, and innovation is shadowed by obsolescence.

The work ultimately manifests a psychological and temporal condition: a suspended state between potential and collapse. Through its formal language of colour and curvature, it reframes the slide as an architectural and cultural artifact, a monument to shifting perceptions of safety, structure, and social order.