Process Study — The Architecture of Power and Its Absence Pieter Lategan — 3 March 2026
Developed during a period of global instability, this work investigates the structural void that follows concentrated power.
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Pieter Lategan
2 March 2026
Pretoria, South Africa
Title: News
Why I will no longer use photos or news articles about current events on my art blog.
Reasons:
– It shifts my work into political commentary.
– It dates the work and weakens its timeless quality.
– It threatens the discipline of Narrative Monumentalism.
– It becomes reactive instead of structural.
– It risks becoming sensational rather than disciplined.
Narrative Monumentalism must not depend on headlines.
Instead, I will use symbolism:
Architecture.
Emptiness.
Light.
Structure.
Silence.
Narrative Monumentalism depends on discipline — not on sensational headlines.
Pieter Lategan
2 March 2026
Pretoria, South Africa
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What is happening here is:
Silent → reduction
Structural → mass
Narrative → psychological charge
All of this becomes my visual philosophy.
Let me be clear: this is not a style.
It is a visual philosophy — a system.
A visual philosophy of Monumentalism.
Pieter Lategan
2 March 2026
Pretoria, South Africa