Midnight Shift Structures (Black)

Inspired by lone architectures scattered across Yugoslavia, our second piece with @mnshift reimagines the brutalist concrete structures that were erected as war memorials in the 1970s to remember the military actions that occurred during the war.

Structures to Reimagine and Reappropriate

The Tjentiste War Memorial is seen throughout the film Last and First Men, a film directed and scored by the Icelandic composer Johann Johansson before he passed away. Through which, the structures are reappriopriate as monuments to the existence of the eighteenth species of humans that they had left behind. In the world of Last and First Men, there exists 18 species of humans, we being the first and the preceding ones being more superior than the last. A higher entity speaks from a time when all life is soon to be extinguish and is constantly reminding the first that humanity is doomed and the impending future is fill with despair. Many of these structures were provided no historical nor geographical context, leaving them as harsh, ominous structures to be reinterpretated and reappropriated for generations to come. The Structures Tee captures a similar sense of perculiarity through a series of rough, unfinished and unusual modules, intentionally lacking contextual clues to invite reconfiguration of their future utopias in the presence of these indestructible, brutalist remains.