Fascinated by architecture in constant transition, from structures emerging in raw steel to those quietly yielding to decay, Sky Cities examines the relationship between time, shelter, and an evolving planet. Prompted by the climate threats reshaping our world, the artist looks to the future, imagining where humanity will gather when the ground shifts.

Drawing on an archive of architectural photographs, Rust transforms buildings into fictional floating structures and spacecraft, retaining digital flaws and glitches as markers of human vulnerability. Translated into cyanotype prints, these imagined skyscapes exist between past, present, and future, bridging memory and speculation while reflecting on how our unstable future has been shaped by the environments we alter, the materials we discard, and the futures we choose to imagine.

On view in AVA's Front Gallery until 26 November 26

Kindly supported by the City of Cape Town.