If you’ve ever wondered about what lay behind closed doors, BUILDING, now on view at Project 4 Gallery, gives you a glimpse of just how big that universe can be beyond the boarded windows and padlocked gates.

A small, unassuming brick building in Belfast, Northern Ireland ran the city’s electricity for nearly half a century. Once wild with rippling currents and responsible for channeling energy to all of residential, domestic, commercial, and industrial Belfast, the vacant building later became the thesis and whole impetus for this BUILDING project. Untouched since the early 1980s, the electrical switch room is pretty standard as far as abandoned buildings go. But this one seems to have a secret “energy” of its own, even years after its desertion. Empty, it is a ghost town of archaic electrical wonders.

Before its renovation in 2005, OAR, a collective comprised of a mix of five Irish and American artists, swooped in to document and recover its remains. BUILDING, the dreamy story of this battery of Belfast leaves an eerie vestige in its wake.

Six large-format photographs by Christopher Heaney reveal the space’s undisturbed, bizarre archeological record. The stark interiors show barren office space, a neglected rotary phone, coat hooks where workers used to hang their hats. Upstairs is Heaney’s Untitled #1 (pictured), taken in the central transformer room – the nervous system of the city. You can almost hear the buzzing of electrical current and feel the high-voltage danger just looking at it.