deconstruction

American   [dee-kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / ˌdi kənˈstrʌk ʃən /

noun

  1. the act or practice of breaking something down into constituent parts.
    The deconstruction of complex problems into smaller issues can make them easier to tackle.
    1. a philosophical and critical movement that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or meaning.
    2. a critical movement that questions forms, hierarchies, and assumptions that are thought to be fixed because of the language traditionally used to describe those forms, hierarchies, and assumptions.

May 2026 at St. Maria als…:
Group-Show by Class Sam Durant / Sculpture in Context
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Deconstruction

 

Deconstruction