Irene Kung plunges cities into darkness to make their iconic monuments stand out. Floating in an artificial light and a futuristic atmosphere, these singular structures look like space ships floating through imaginary geographic spaces. The light reveals their geometry, amplifying their lines, flattening their volume and reducing them to their distinctive features.
They remain no less impressive, protruding from the void, revealing their elegant monumentality. Separated from their environment, these metal, glass and plaster structures offer a reflection on heritage, tourism, and the reduction of a culture to its historical references.
Each edifice carries with it the history and ambience of a city. As in Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities, real-life elements give life to a place that unfolds in the spectator’s imagination, phantom architecture in a fictional world. This mystical aspect is accentuated by the dull light of the images, giving the monuments a timeless and almost sacred character, something that can be lost in the hustle and bustle that surrounds them.
Laurence Cornet
EXHIBITION
Until Februry 23rd, 2013
Daydream, photographs by Irene Kung
Forma Galleria
Piazza Tito Lucrezio Caro
1
20136 Milano
Italia
from Tuesday to Friday 10 am – 7 pm
Saturday 12 – 6 pm
And by appointment
BOOK :
« The Invisible City », Irene Kung
Editions Contrasto
English / Italian
« La Ville Invisible », Irene Kung
Editions Xavier Barral
Hardcover. 48 photographs
295 × 242 mm
112 pages
ISBN : 978-2-36511-009-9
39 euros
