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RYUGYONG WINDSOCK The Ryugyong windsock takes its form from an unfinished tower in Pyongyang, once meant to be the tallest hotel in the world. Despite its scale and ambition, the building remains largely empty. This version, 600 times smaller, is just as hollow.

Attached to a domestic fan, it inflates with air and briefly comes to life. The fabric moves like a beach flag or an advertising banner, far from the rigid image of power it is supposed to represent, a controlled, closed context where nothing is meant to pass through, except air.

What holds it up is only a current. The same one that suggests growth and expansion, but also carries a form of erosion. Here, the tower exists through a flow that cannot be contained. What seems distant and monumental becomes light, unstable. Development can act like a destructive wind, and what is built to stand through tourism may, sooner or later, collapse.


DATE 2025

MATERIALS 3D nylon taffeta fabric / spray paint

PICTURES Alexandre Beltran / India Maury



















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