“A man who concentrates before a work of art is absorbed by it, […]. In contrast, the distracted mass absorbs the work of art. […]. Architecture has always represented the prototype of a work of art the reception of which is received in a state of distraction and by the collective. The laws of its reception are most instructive.”
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
The Fifth Column challenges this distraction and asks the viewer to be absorbed by it. The, usually, reliable structure of architecture is here challenged and presented as a façade.
