“The city is seen imaginatively as the heart of contemporary darkness
[...] a jungle of brick, stone and smoke,
with its greedy predators and apathetic victims, its brutal indifference to either communal value or individual feeling."
Nochlin, L. (1971) Realism. Penguin Books : London
with its greedy predators and apathetic victims, its brutal indifference to either communal value or individual feeling."
Nochlin, L. (1971) Realism. Penguin Books : London
In a failed
attempt to get away from the city over Chinese New Year, Molly and Chad pitched
a tent in the alleyways and carparks of Tiong Bahru Estate. Naming their
adventure Urban Camping, and armed
with a camera and two iPhones, Molly and Chad shot a series of dissociated
holiday snaps, capturing the isolation they experienced, alone in an abandoned suburb.
Why do we
live in cities so full of life and possibility, yet feel so alone? Artist
Edward Hopper explored these themes through his realist paintings. We are faced
with the antithesis of city dwelling – a feeling of disconnection, isolation
and aloneness that accumulates as brooding sentiments of anti-urbanism.
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