Concrete Skin: Inhabiting post-modernist cities
When one thinks of contemporary cities, a dense landscape of concrete verticalness easily comes to mind. This human-made skin over the land is already far from the primeval function of providing shelter that lies in the beginning of the architectural activity.
As cities grew bigger and more complex, they became materialized reflections of ideologies and physical testimonies of organic interactions, which ended up shaping them.
Urban design and architecture is thus a silent, implicit speech that can be read, as well as trigger reactions – both consciously or unconsciously – and originate other speeches that will contribute to influencing the urban landscape. Extremely intricate and multifaceted, the present cities are an active place, a living tissue which is constantly challenging and being challenged, adjusting and being readjusted, in an endless negotiation among several parties.
To talk about these on-going negotiations within the city space and all the codes embedded in its design, this artists’ talk invites the artists Maud Vareillaud-Bouzzine and Soazic Guezennec to present their artistic projects which pay particular attention to several interactions happening within today’s cities.
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More about the artist: http://glogauair.net/artists/2016/maud_vareillaud-bouzzine/
SOAZIC GUEZENNEC - Soazic is a French artist, living between Mumbai and Paris. Her works mixes painting, video and installation to question the relationship between Man and Nature. She explores the planet and takes inspiration from her environment to create immersive pieces which combine a poetic vision with a sense of threat that draw the viewer in on both an emotive and intellectual level.
More about the artist: http://www.soazicguezennec.com/