shelter 2007
necessary illusions 2007
abstract particulars 2006
mapping mother 2006
for-, 2006
civilise 2006
surface 2005
revere 2005
excavare 2005
desert 2005
ether 2005
janus 2004
domestic sculpture 2004
of uncertain nature 2004
commonality 2003
campania 2002
proximity 2002
palimpsest 2001
mitosis-meiosis 1998
stately european portraits 1995
untitled 1993
untitled 1991
untitled 1989
landscapes 1988




 

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While open urban spaces represent democratic, commercial and mainstream social values, disregarded urban spaces represent otherness, displacement and a loss of social value.

Invisible spaces are imbued with a sense of having left the safety of social order and are therefore places in which risk becomes a given when encountering that space.

As public urban spaces expand and contract with shifting populations so do the invisible spaces. As a result of this movement these spaces house populations that oscillate between urban normality and moral and social upheaval. Issues such as race, religion, illicit social behaviour, sexuality and poverty can all be found floundering in these 'spaces of no value', further marginalising them and legitimising their outlaw status.

With passengers seated inside cocooned and protected, the train screams through endless concrete shelters. Dangerous spaces that seem to simmer in an artificial reality.