The cityproject

2008-2009
24 photos, lambda, dibond, plexi

the Cityproject features cities melting down, modernist architecure of thawing sugar. Against the utopian pretence to being durable and eternal, these staged cities bring the image of destruction and falling apart. The rationalism of urban planning stubles in mud and paddles, while the dilapidating geometry of white cubes makes even the Vitruvian princuple of durability fail. The models of imagined citeis are metamorphosing into the abandoned ruins on never-realized projects right before our eyes