SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe: Modern Ruins 1:220

POPklik members Pau Ros (photos) and Fany de la Chica (video) documented SEFT-1 The Arts Catalyst in partnership with Furtherfield present: SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe: Modern Ruins 1:220 Date: 20 June–27 July 2014 / Venue: Furtherfield Gallery Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene (Los Ferronautas) built their striking silver road-rail SEFT-1 vehicle to explore the abandoned passenger railways of Mexico and Ecuador, capturing their journeys in videos, photographs and collected objects. In their first London exhibition, SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe – Modern Ruins 1:220, the artists explore how the ideology of progress is imprinted onto historic landscapes and reflect on the two poles of the social experience of technology – use and obsolescence.

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See related Death Collapsing Into Life – a guided walk along Parkland with Tim Waterman here