An exhibition exploring ‘home’; and how this is interpreted through the spaces we inhabit. Lindsay Duncanson’s photographic and Video work examines ideas of home, whilst Clive Jackson’s digitally constructed images explore impact's of urban regeneration on existing physical and social boundaries.
When out in an unfamiliar and wild landscape , we often seek out familiar shapes and objects, imaging houses in, taming the landscape, discovering domesticating and taming the wild landscapes. Duncanson’s work looks at the way we seek to domestic unfamiliar landscapes to , imprinting our ideas of home onto uncertain paths
“The frame establishes the difference between seeing and merely looking . It produces the picture by domesticating the “overpowering” landscape”.
The photograph acts as the frame imaging ourselves into a home and a new secure and certain dwelling.
This “domestication of the view” concerns also the work of Jackson. His images look at the effects of re-generation on the urban landscape. It has now become the habit to see empty urban spaces perhaps old relics of the industrial past as a chance to develop clean up and domesticate the undesirable spaces of the inner city. New communities spring up back to back with the old.
This need to domestic has been internalised to the city . Regeneration, or domestication of our once industrial core. Spaces for factories, for generation of work and money are now seen as space for urban development, blocks of faceless flats are squeezed in the centre of cities and town. Where industry and its communities once thrived new sterile domestic abodes spring up and out secured and often walled in against the existing undesirable communities
“Suburban space was thus designed to purify communal spaces, o sweep away urban clutter, while at the same time preserving the popularist idea of neighbourliness.”
Colomina Beatriz “ The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” pg 116-117 Sexuality and Space Princeton Architectural Press 1992
Colomina Beatriz “ The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” pg 116-117 Sexuality and Space Princeton Architectural Press 1992
Spigel Lynn “The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighbourhood Ideal in Post war America” pg189 Sexuality and Space Princeton Architectural Press 1992 |
