BODYbuildings: apresentação

 

BODYbuildings, 10 series of 6 photographs.

by definition a metropolis hums with city dwellers - shaping the city and shaped by it. While we usually think of urban populations in terms of people, various forms of architecture also inhabit cities. These architectural creatures come in all shapes and sizes: buildings, streets, sidewalks… and when we zoom in, we find doorknobs, pipes, strewn garbage and a host of intimate details.

by juxtaposing portraits of these seemingly inanimate actors, they become living bodies. They move and create patterns, rhythms and sometimes chaos, despite their heavily-anchored mass. Look up at the sky, down at the ground or focus on a detail: the sum of these viewpoints reveals the fundamental nature of the city.

Our eyes scan the world around us, but only our bodies physically touch our surroundings. We come into contact, are on the verge of interacting, or have already left our mark. We don't simply live in the city, we dance with its architecture to a reciprocal rhythm.

Through 10 series of images, BodyBuildings explores this theme.

Hillary Goidell

 

"…It's obvious that even the most lackluster, most trivial image is transfigured when projected on a screen. The slightest detail and the most banal object gain new significance and take on a life of their own. And this, regardless of the meaningful nature of the images and despite the fact that they translate ideas and constitute symbols. Cinema isolates objects, thus bringing them to life. They are endowed with an ever-greater sense of autonomy, allowing them to break away from their everyday meanings. Leaves, a bottle, a hand, etc. live a quasi-animal life, just asking to be used as such."

-Antonin Artaud, Witchcraft and Cinema, 1949