NOT TO BE MISSED

Thanks to 6co for the photos!

Firstly, THANK YOU to all who braved the rain and came by!  it was good to hang out in the fresh spring air.

We were told at one point the map wasn’t great - they actually hadn’t even seen it but made it anyway…

Picture: thanks to Chip Rountree!

Re:Building a Nation - observations in an urban environment
Photography by Oak Taylor-Smith

Last year saw the Chinese capital city at it’s finest, days were blue and sunny, and flowers were in bloom everywhere.  For months around the great event, picket fenced islands of potted lushness and colour were recruited to the pavements around our neighbourhood, I’m guessing not to feed the butterflies…

Click on image to see more….       Photography by Oak Taylor-Smith

Since the lead up to the Beijing Games in 2008, the city was a building site and  temporary façades were everywhere.  In an attempt to brighten the place up, whole landscapes were erected along walls, around the constructions of new metro stations and over the nations great institutions (some strangely under reconstruction when the world was visiting).

Much like the early and classical landscape paintings, these temporary cultural landscapes exhibit the skills and aesthetic of designers who are employed to create a brighter, harmonious community.

In photographing these landscapes in their final setting, often at odds with the reality around them, the result can be strangely beautiful and sometimes surreal.

many thanks to 想想 for the photography

PUBLICview 1/3 short film (1

PUBLIC VIEW the exhibition from hbh on Vimeo.

More great Public pictures available here

thank you to Helen, great pictures

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