E31 Gallery
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Dafni&Papadatos
dal 14/11/2007 al 14/1/2008

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Nancy Kougioufa



 
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14/11/2007

Dafni&Papadatos

E31 Gallery, Athens

Corporate Cities Ltd. The exhibition consists in sculptures and drawings that deal with aspects of newly formed cities that result from a paradigmatic change regarding the driving forces behind their constitution and urban planning.


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Corporate Cities Ltd

Text by Marina Fokidis

The exhibition consists in sculptures and drawings that deal with aspects of newly formed cities that result from a paradigmatic change regarding the driving forces behind their constitution and urban planning.
The work takes into consideration contemporary globalized mega city examples that distance themselves from the idea of an urban centre in the classical sense and are to be considered more as real estate projects within the context of a “corporate city” ; corporate cities in corporate states, pre-programmed cities created and run by economic forces rather than political ones ;cities without citizens.

The installation part highlights the way investors end up regulating the form of living environments by first creating a habitat (in extremis including the geography of the place) and then inviting the people to live in it , as well as the role of spectacular architecture in a context where not only history but also public space is absent (seen as space were potentially dissent may be expressed);

In addition, the realization of logo for invented company here as in previous works of Dafni&Papadatos functions as a visual deduction of the artists’ research in the last four years on habitat conditions involving territory structure and resources. Furthermore it emphasizes all potential crises in meaning and representation.

E31 Gallery
Evripidou 31-33 - Athens

IN ARCHIVIO [5]
Jack Early
dal 2/10/2008 al 14/11/2008

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