Abstract form can no longer be perceived as non-relational or non-representative. Today, by always also referring back to its own history, it ultimately establishes a narrative, putting itself at odds with its original aim of referring only to itself.

The potential of abstraction today lies not in an attempt to find exclusive answers, but in examining the many translation processes and variable interconnections between production, reception and context. Consequently, it is often the hidden, not directly visible transformations that become the objects of such study.

In a way that can be compared with systems theory or linguistics, where ever-changing systems are broken down into abstract and variable signifiers of meaning production, the complexity of socioeconomic realities and their increasing level of abstraction are called into question.

Making visible these acts of translation and interpretation develops the idea of an unstable, variable object. The city, the economy, and language are taken as points of departure for an interest in the not necessarily visible aspects which underlie built or sculptural objects are based and which help to shape their reception.