Geometry of Ruins, is a breakout solo show by Brazilian artists Andrezza Valentin and Guilherme Marcondes (her husband and collaborator). The show opened  last week at Flux in Los Angeles; an exhibition exploring the modern ruins and the feelings they raise.

The works, consisting of photography, animation and a video installation, were produced over a period of one year in three big modern cities — Los Angeles, New York and São Paulo — and their abandoned structures.

Each city creates different dreams and its varying degrees of architecture influence the resulting works in a definitive way–the melancholic photo shoot of the ruins of an unfinished art center in our hometown São Paulo, the menacing glamour of artificial lights over one crumbled wall of the only Californian socialist colony and the abstract rigidity of Manhattan’s grid reflected in a mirror box, multiplying fragile structures to infinity.

Since leaving Los Angeles (she was a three year resident), Valentin has grown in her appreciation of experimentation and versatility. This show reveals not just the glimpses of visual academia but also an interest in the acute elements of urban life and all of its materials. “Ruins” may seem to spell out something architectural, structural, but it seems to speak more about the temporary condition, the fragility of habitation.

Geometry of Ruins @ Flux

Runs  through July 11
Open Wed-Sat 2-5pm (closed July 4)
326 Sunset Avenue Venice CA