A pivotal element is the question as to what extent modernity’s belief in progress and growth continues to be a factor today and whether viable alternatives are conceivable. Russian constructivism is an important point of reference for Levin in this context. He interprets ideas about social and political change into forms that both embody and advance them.

In his latest works, Levin employs shapes like the Arc of Triumph, the winner’s pedestal, and the ferris wheel and translates them into wood structures and plaster castings representing the originals but only vaguely reminiscent of them. Images of the ambiguity of success and failure develop; images of the instability of ideological, economical, and scientific systems. Levin’s practice also is analogous to the way knowledge is pilling up and molded in the “free encyclopedia,” Wikipedia, when he recycles, deconstructs, or repeats individual elements of his work. Data, structures, and documents appear as moveable building blocks in a constantly updated and evolving view of the world.

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