This is the 18th part of my occasional series on Landslides in Art.  Part 17 can be found here.

Elena Damiani is a Peruvian artist based in London whose work combines sculpture and architecture to challenge notions of space and place.  Her work is really interesting, and she has both a personal website and a blog, which are well worth a look.  In 2009 and she produced a piece of work entitled landslide, which is a scale model installation that depicts a series of building apparently over-run by a granular flow.  There are a series of images of the work on both her blog and her website:

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It is an interesting piece in that structures are a combination of mostly recognisable and often iconic buildings from around the world, set in a steep mountain environment, with the granular flow around their foundations:

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The source of the landslide is not obvious, and the buildings have not been toppled, perhaps suggesting a slow flow rather than a rock avalanche?

In fact her work quite often features other aspects of landslides, in some cases incipient failures:

http://www.elenadamiani.com/palimpsests.html

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And in others the aftermath of large rockfalls:

http://www.elenadamiani.com/palimpsests.html