Louise Phipps
The City Imagined
This work is coming from many different areas, it is for one about the city and how the people of the city interact and flow through their urban environment. It is also a project about the physical structures within a city and how people's traces are left amongst them. The Urban nightscape is an important element to the work. Night time provides a cloak over the city which transforms the physical structures of the city into the realm of the urban imaginary. The idea of the urban imaginary is important as it is the basis for how one can depict the traces left by the people of the city. The project depicts this by placing the figure in the images in such a way as to suggest just a trace or indication of a figure that meanders through the city leaving an invisible path which in turn makes up the flow of the city. The idea of the urban landscape is relevant in the formalities of this work as each image is compositionally similar and the architecture depicted in each also follows similar formal arrangements. The element of architecture in this series is just as important to it as the use of the figure. The use of anonymous 70's style architecture provides the images with unfamiliarity with Dublin city which is exactly what the intent is as the images should be anonymous so that they can relate to any city and also project and sense of the unreal.
Lee Costello • Amanda Gourley • Daniel Graham • Niamh Grimes • Daniel Holfeld • David McClean • George McManus • Ruth Medjber • Darran Murray • Philip Murray • Louise Phipps •
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