Unpredictable Expression...
SB13 Act II, Ausstellung im Beirut Art Center, 14. Oktober 2017 - 19. Januar 2018. Kurator: Hicham Khalidi, Assoziierte Kuratorin: Natasha Hoare
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Magic Party Place. 2016
Digital prints
In this collaboration, CJ Clarke and Christopher Ian Smith deconstruct and interrogate their individual work, presenting a large-scale photographic project, Magic Party Place by Clarke, and a feature documentary, New Town Utopia (2017) by Smith. Together they explore the mood of contemporary England through the post-war era, sometimes modernist, and often brutalist architectural and social constructions known as “new towns.”
New towns were originally designed as social utopias along Thomas More’s vision, in order to create “a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture and civic pride.” Specifically focusing on the English new town of Basildon, this project explores the intentions and successes of such top-down social planning, and its impact on the behaviors and attitudes of its residents. Sixty years on, the town has become deteriorated, degenerated and desaturated.
© Photos: CJ Clarke
Repro: Haupt & Binder
SB13 Act II, Ausstellung im Beirut Art Center, 14. Oktober 2017 - 19. Januar 2018. Kurator: Hicham Khalidi, Assoziierte Kuratorin: Natasha Hoare