Title:
Breathing In, Time Out (The Green Energy Landmark) - Photography Commission
Date:
2003
Artist:
Kieran Ridley
Location:
Brynmawr
Background:
CBAT was approached by the architects
for the Lakeside Development, a combined residential and retail scheme on the
site of the long closed and about to be demolished Brynmawr Rubber Factory designed
by Ove Arup, to develop a proposal for the integration of artworks within this
area. CBAT invited Kiran Ridley to make a final photographic
record of the site as demolition was about to commence.
Commission:
This work is not intended
as a comment on the demolition of this listed structure or as a contribution
to the debate around this issue. The industrial legacy is however an integral
part of the South Wales landscape and features strongly in the regeneration
of towns in Blaenau Gwent. Kiran’s work therefore is both an important
record of a stage of transition