In this series „Monuments“, it is worth underscoring his use of offset, a reproduction method proper to print culture. Having said that, despite being printed on low-quality paper like that used in magazines (therein the titles allusive to page numbers) the artist materialises the work in a single copy which...
Sadra Bagheri: Where is This Place?
Says Sadra: Our memories are not as honest as they appear. Human brain is not neutral about recreating memories and is always changing them according to new information it gets. When you think of a scene that you have memorized, your brain won't give you an exact image of it...
Flavio Aquino: Urban Interference
Urban Interference is an experimental project with artistic narratives about the influence and occupation of urbanization on urban space and the author 's interference in this occupation. An archaeological action of the author himself, who throughout the year photographed various spaces and situations of the city of Natal. Using the...
Loïc Vendrame: Riad Mirage Club
Riad Mirage Club (Morocco) is the last volume of the long-term and ongoing documentary project Future Rust, Future Dust, which aims to analyze the urban and architectural impact of the last world financial crisis and the burst of the real estate bubble. Through a "concrete tsunami" exploration of ghost cities,...
Jacek Fota: PKiN
The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental...
Moira Ness: Nightscapes
Says Moira: Night-time has always appealed to me. The sun sets and the bustling city slows. People retire indoors to sleep and a hush falls over Toronto, Canada. Lights are turned on and the visual experience of a landscape setting, otherwise in darkness, is transformed. Unseen spatial relationships reveal themselves...
Vincent Feldman: Tokyo Mo-dan – Tracing Architectural Form Meiji to the End of History
Tokyo Mo-dan attempts to describe what makes Tokyo one of the most compelling and thought provoking centers of architectural design and place of urban fascination in the world. This broad survey captures the Western architectural form in Tokyo from it’s earliest adoption in the late 19th Century through stages of...
Krzysztof Sienkiewicz: Urban Collage
Says Krzysztof: There are buildings, which seem to be standing in the wrong place. When I started noticing them in Warsaw after several years of shooting the urban landscape, I was convinced that I found the way to tell the story of this city. Suddenly, all of these places, which...
Jaeuk Lee: New Town
New Town is about the transformation of residential spaces through a large scale urban redevelopment project currently in progress in several South Korean cities. Old towns were forced by the government to be redeveloped for the sake of “progress”. They choose to create new spaces by eradicating existing areas to...
Gianluca Cecere: The Old Europe
The Old Europe is a project started ten years ago, in 2007, about the globalization seen as an investigation into the transformation of urban territory. The cultural homologation, meant as uniformity of the behaviors, of the models of life, of the consumptions, inevitably influences the landscape, simplifying and modifying irreversibly...