Abstract
If the city has become the definitive art form of our present, with its structures determining physical movement through positionality; by what methods might these seemingly fixed spatiotemporal terms be rewritten? This photo- essay explores how - using the material conventions of both painting and photography - fissures may be cast in the forms, discourses and increasingly unidirectional relationships imposed by the global city. Decidedly intertextual, this essay draws from the esoteric writing of Pierre Klossowski, a disputed 18th Century painting, and the magic realism of Césare Aira in which the spectres of an unbuilt Buenos Aires have a tangible effect on the lives of its inhabitants.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-61 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Intersections (Postgraduate Journal - Arts , Humanities , Social Sciences) |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 3 Jul 2020 |