Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy work has become an end

work has become an end in itself

Melville House Publishing

How should a museum deal with artworks that are considered problematic today

in relation to the (institutional) context

The rebuilt windmill provides a hypothetical link between the time from which Nan’s ‘story’ springs and the present

Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy work has become an endMACK, 2025, softcover, 176 pages, 17 x 21. 5 cm Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed