Brook Hsu’s two recent works are studies for the Barcelona Pavilion, a large painting in the artist’s distinctive green ink on canvas. The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the 1929 International Exposition, was a seminal example of modernist architecture, emphasizing open space, minimalism, and luxurious materials. Though dismantled shortly after the exposition, it was later reconstructed in the 1980s. Hsu’s drawings mediate the paradoxical modus of the pavilion, which, unlike the eternal nature of architecture, exists to be destroyed and rebuilt. Hsu places a pregnant woman in place of the Georg Kolbe sculpture which stands in the pavilion, intermingling themes of life, death and rebirth between the organic and inorganic; anatomy and architecture.