Fragments
of time

About.

Developed during a one-week workshop at the UPDATE Festival in Liepāja, this project explores the city’s former military fortifications and the layers of history, decay and contemporary art embedded within them. This website serves as a record of a place that is still changing, before it disappears.

The ruins.

Abandoned after less than a decade.

1908,
Less than a decade after construction began, the Liepāja Fort was abandoned and officially deemed a strategic error. Some of the cannons were dismantled and transferred to the Kaunas Fortress in Lithuania, while the remaining guns were melted down. The fortifications were subsequently demolished through controlled explosions, leaving only partially destroyed artillery batteries, underground structures, and powder magazines standing today.

THE COAST TAKES OVER.

Situated along the coast, the bunkers are continuously exposed to erosion, wind, and the forces of the sea. Over time, these natural processes have caused parts of the structures to disappear, with further deterioration already taking place.

Imprint.