Third year project

Here are a few images from my final year project. A brief artist statement can be read below.

This body of work explores the concept of the utopian as an unattainable vision. Taking a local shopping centre as its subject, the project uses montage to bring together archival type imagery with architectural drawings. The images of the building become disrupted; squashed into impossible shapes and broken up by the lines of its envisioning. Although only examining one building, the work considers civil architecture as a whole, highlighting the impossibility of fabricating the utopian city centres we see proposed in our society. The many translations a building undergoes to reach its final completion means that it will inevitably fall short of its idealised conception. This translation is continued by time, as architecture is inevitably re-contextualised within the urban landscape.