EXHIBITION 077


2016 feature film directed by Ben Wheatley, the building’s residents descend into wanton violence and depravity, drawing a link between Brutalist structures and brutal mindsets. Te novel is often associated with the notorious 31-storey Trellick Tower on the Cheltenham Estate in northwest London. Designed by the Hungarian-born architect Ern Goldfinger (1902–1987), the block became a breeding ground for illicit activity and some especially nasty incidents of violent crime, earning it the nickname ‘Te Tower of Terror’. A preoccupation with the dehumanising aspects of Brutalist architecture is seen in the work of Seher Shah, a Pakistani artist who trained as an architect at the Rhode Island


Uncanny doubles are prevalent in cinematic horror: terrifying reflections,


sinister shadows [and] creepy clones


School of Design. Her drawing series Brutalist Traces (2015), transforms buildings, including the New Delhi Municipal Council and London’s Barbican Centre, into ghostly apparitions, dissolving the materiality of these imposing structures through the use of horizontal graphite lines. At Ikon, she is exhibiting Notes from a City Unknown (2021), a portfolio of 32 screenprints that render the Brutalist architecture of New Delhi as a series of geometric abstractions, accompanied by poetic reflections inspired by her unsettled relationship with the city. Brutalism arrived in India in 1950 with Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex in Chandigarh. Designed as Punjab’s new state capital following the partition of the


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