Build and Destroy - David de Beyter youth Antidote Newspaper

Antidote Newspaper

all surprisingly easy to make and bursting with exciting flavours

things are not as they used to be

Japanese-made multi-coloured textiles in an “African print” style were a highly sought after commodity loved by local people

even the possibility of fantasising about what is to come has been discarded and nullified

Build and Destroy - David de Beyter youth Antidote NewspaperBuild and Destroy presents David De Beyters immersive project from between 2014 and 2020, which focuses on the Big Bangers, a community of stock car enthusiasts who fix up and then demolish vehicles that would otherwise be consigned to the scrap heap. In its combination of artistic and anthropological approaches, the book resonates with the experience of destruction as observed by De Beyter and offers a fragmentary reading of this culture of creation