22.5 Degrees of Possibility, 2018
Two-channel video installation
Original sound: Yoav Shemesh
The Burroughs Wellcome Building in North Carolina, designed by Paul Rudolph in the early 1970s, was conceived as a state-of-the-art research facility and a symbol of technological optimism. Its distinctive stacked geometry and use of innovative materials reflected a vision of progress and human ingenuity.
Filmed in 2018, after the building had been abandoned and prior to its demolition, the work captures the structure in a state of quiet obsolescence—its original promise suspended in time.
The film brings together image, sound, and fragmented text drawn from dystopian literature of the same era, including works such as J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise. Through this pairing, the piece reflects on the tension between modernism’s utopian aspirations and the psychological unease embedded within visions of the future.
Originally conceived as a generative, two-channel installation in which text, sound, and image are continuously recombined, the work explores how narrative emerges through shifting relationships between these elements.
The title refers to the 22.5-degree angles that define Rudolph’s cascading, A-shaped architectural system.