People familiar with Carsten Höller’s work will have noticed the recurrence of division. In an interview with @mary__cleary for @wallpapermag, Höller elaborates on how this principle plays an integral part in Brutalisten, as well as in his previous project The Double Club, a collaboration with Fondazione Prada: "Both projects are social experiments to some extent, and in both projects, division plays a central part, but in different ways. In The Double Club, each area was divided into equally sized Western and Congolese parts and maintained as separate, both architecturally and acoustically. At Brutalisten, ingredients are cooked alone after having been divided into different parts, which are cooked separately in different ways, but then put back together again. I don’t despise elaborately cooked complex dishes made from a multitude of ingredients, but it seems to be what everybody is doing at the moment, piling up tons of stuff on a plate and layering ingredients horizontally. We go in the opposite direction. The aim is to dig vertically into the taste of a given ingredient and clearing it of the background noise." Photo 1-3 by Pierre Björk Photo 4 by Attilio Maranzano