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Towards is pleased to present placeholders, a two-person exhibition by Adam Shiu–Yang Shaw & Viktor Fordell.
An exhibition text by Alex Turgeon follows:
Urban infrastructure maps the contours of our subjectivity, formed by the residual spaces created by how land is defined, divided and allocated. Civilization operates along this boundary, tracing tensions produced by self-imposed demarcations. What emerges as a result is a cartography of thresholds that are simultaneously connective and divisive, binding together as much as they hold space apart. Within the interstitial zones that constitute the lines of our civic environments, areas that buffer the edges of constructed worlds, a spectrum emerges. Here, cityscapes transition along a series of graduating scale shifts, moving from vertical density of the city centre to the long drawn out horizontality of manufacture. Highways and freeways frame the shape of the periphery, drawing out a linearity of...More
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Towards is pleased to present placeholders, a two-person exhibition by Adam Shiu–Yang Shaw & Viktor Fordell.
An exhibition text by Alex Turgeon follows:
Urban infrastructure maps the contours of our subjectivity, formed by the residual spaces created by how land is defined, divided and allocated. Civilization operates along this boundary, tracing tensions produced by self-imposed demarcations. What emerges as a result is a cartography of thresholds that are simultaneously connective and divisive, binding together as much as they hold space apart. Within the interstitial zones that constitute the lines of our civic environments, areas that buffer the edges of constructed worlds, a spectrum emerges. Here, cityscapes transition along a series of graduating scale shifts, moving from vertical density of the city centre to the long drawn out horizontality of manufacture. Highways and freeways frame the shape of the periphery, drawing out a linearity of...More
