Urban Pornography

Artists Space, New York

The exhibition examines the contemporary staging of the urban condition photographically. The recording of banal structures and spaces range in approach from cynical to nostalgic, recovering obscure, in-between sites - domestic facades, billboards, casino and cruise interiors, in a process of sensationalizing an abjected ordinary.

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Urban Pornography examines the contemporary staging of the urban condition photographically. The recording of banal structures and spaces range in approach from cynical to nostalgic, recovering obscure, in-between sites__domestic facades, billboards, casino and cruise interiors, in a process of sensationalizing an abjected ordinary. In revealing the prosaic and spectacularizing the banal, the images of global metropoli represented by this group of artists, serve to critique the perversion of repetition, sameness, predictability, and excess of "the city."

Doug Aitken, Jordi Bernado, Oliver Boberg, Laura Carton, Lourdes Grobet, Hong Hao, Naoya Hatakeyama, Todd Hido, Francesco Jodice, William Jones, Doreen Morrissey, Jean-Luc MoulÃ¨ne, Warren Neidich, Catherine Opie, Bill Owens, Lisa Roy, Alex Slade

Featuring project room installations by Jonah Freeman and Michael Phelan

Urban Pornography is made possible, in part, by contributions from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Stephen Wirtz Gallery Riva Gallery, and Nathalie Angles. Special thanks to Peter Zellner, Architect, Exhibition Advisor

Curator: Lauri Firstenberg

photo: Daniel Roth

Opening reception: Thursday, October 25, 6.30 -8.30pm

Artists Space
Greene Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10013
T.212.226.3970 Ext. 27 F.212.966.1434

Opening reception: October 25, 6:30-8:30p.m.
Exhibition open: October 25- December 1, 2001

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