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‘Junge mit Jacke’
The River Tawe Bridge
Brigitte Jurack’s work is placed upon
the remnants of Swansea (New Cut) Bridge which used to carry the Vale
of Neath railway from the east into Victoria Station, where Swansea Leisure
centre stands now. The bridge was built in 1863 and dismantled by 1965.
The columns which stand in the middle of the River Tawe are remnants and
signifiers of a past industrial and thriving city.
“The notion of the elsewhere, of the uncertainty in relation to
time, space and function, which this particular architectural situation
evokes is simultaneously expressed by young boys at the castle square,
twiddling with their skateboard for hours, days, years: enactments of
daydreaming each in their solitude world: the board”.
Brigitte Jurack 2002
Alongside the solitary hooded figure perched on the edge of one of the
support columns Jurack has installed a colourful parachute-like fabric
over the second column, sprawling like fallen bunting, evoking the day
after the party
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