Breakdown

How to take apart the images or objects of internal architecture and obtain these elements are also important to this project. The processes of art exhibition “Breakdown” (Figure 18) in 2001 in London could provide a similar way to take apart components inside of architecture. Although Michael Landy, the artist of this exhibition, focused on the core ideal that the meaning of consuming, the way he catalogued, defined, and re-organised all his properties in his 33 years life (7,227 items) is another big issue in his work. Before breakdown all his properties, he have to classify different items, take apart of them, and reorganised the fragments. The whole process reverses the way of production, and purifies the daily objects in the real world. Therefore, every interior images, items, and decorations belong to historical buildings in London could be take apart through this same process, which is like the mechanical operation beneath these buildings.