| |
"Is the whole of the future going to exhaust itself in the artificial synthesizing of the past? Who knows where this gigantic backward movement is leading?"
Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End.
A Place on Earth is a photographic project located in the new towns inspired by traditional and contemporary Western architecture in the suburbs of Shanghai, China. In Thames Town entire historic buildings such as a church and a public house, statues of famous people and cobbled paving are replicated alongside Tudor, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian style buildings . It attempts to re-create a sense of history and small community, albeit at a fraction of the time. In Anting, an automobile town with German-style Bauhaus buildings, offers row after row of modern European living. Both housing developments have been slow to be taken up, many are unoccupied and the streets are eerily empty. There is an uncanny feeling as new flats begins to look old without having ever been lived in.
A Place on Earth was developed with supported from Film and Video Umbrella.
www.fvu.co.uk |
