My favorite Dirt Piles
Martin Ransby

My Favorite Dirt Piles explores the experience of confronting the huge construction sites that are planted around the developing areas of the city of Copenhagen through capturing the vista of immense dirt piles, a casual encounter in places of such identity. The artist departs from an existing project of the conceptual artist Robert Kinmont ‘My Favorite Dirt Roads’, in which Kinmot depicted dirt roads reminiscent of his teenhood, and sets on a journey of framing the dirt piles he encounters around his neighborhood in Ørestad.

The huge piles of dirt blocking any other view stand in sharp contrast to the open, infinite lanes, leading to places dear to Kinmont. Originally an occurrence that is not supposed to be seen, temporary by definition, an absolutely functional and not aesthetical identity is brought to the foreground, while the construction that prescribed its creation is set to the background.

40 pages

Published by: Ransby Editions in 2018

Softcover, Saddle Stitched