Video: The death of cities in the works of Lori Nix
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cities are born, develop, become megacities, and then die. This is what history shows. And not all of them are destined to then rise from the ashes. A series of post-apocalyptic works by artist L is dedicated to how cities die. ori nix entitled "The City".
There are, of course, cities over thousands of years old. But there are only a few of them. And the vast majority of cities will sooner or later disappear from the face of the Earth. Moreover, this applies not only to small towns on the periphery, which can disappear with the depletion of the mine or the closure of the plant, but also to large metropolitan areas. An example of this is Detroit, which has practically become a ghost town in a few decades.
The same fate, possibly, awaits the capital of Great Britain in the future. In any case, there are already postcards depicting post-apocalyptic London. This is the process of the dying of large cities and the series "The City" by artist Laurie Nix is dedicated. Moreover, when creating these works, Lori acts as both an artist and a photographer.
To begin with, she creates small models of what she wants to shoot (in the photographs of the “The City” series, we can see a laundry, a museum, a second-hand bookstore and other city objects). Moreover, it makes it so that this layout looks as realistic as possible.
The next stage in the creation of these unusual photographs is, in fact, the process of photographing. Laurie Nix sets the camera to macro mode. So, looking at these images from the series "The City", it is generally difficult to understand that this is not a real abandoned laundry or dilapidated Museum of Natural History in New York, but only small models of them.
So Lori Nix's work can probably be attributed to hyperrealism - a genre of art, when something artificial looks much more natural than natural. Consider the sculptures of wet people by Carole Feuerman.
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