Begun thirteen years ago, Buildings Entered is an on-going, life-time project in which Charles
LaBelle documents every building he physically enters. Currently, there are over eleven thousand
buildings in the archive, with additional buildings being added almost daily. Conceptual in nature,
the project is both a diary and a historical document in which the artist’s own life and the space of
the world intersect.
By foregrounding the act of “entering” these buildings, LaBelle’s project reveals a broader,
phenomenological framework: one that investigates the relationship between architecture and the
body, between urban space and the construction of the subject.
“Perusing these diary-like sketches of buildings, the passages of daily life are brought to an abrupt
halt. Casual experience, normally undertaken by rote, is turned into an act of keen awareness.”
-Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times |
