What is a city? You can’t just build skyscrapers, landmarks and roads and call it a day. It’s the people who make a city like Sydney, as millions of...
Invisible Cities
2000 NSW
Australia
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What is a city? You can’t just build skyscrapers, landmarks and roads and call it a day. It’s the people who make a city like Sydney, as millions of lives interlock in both profound and banal ways. Invisible Cities imagines those links as architecture, with streets and towering skyscrapers formed through a series of interconnected aluminium ribbons.
At day, it stands as an impressive metal sculpture. Come night, each ribbon glows distinct from its neighbours but within the same gradient, both in a world of its own and part of a whole. Wander through and find your own path, following unfolding patterns of light and sound.
Named after Italo Calvino’s postmodern novel, Invisible Cities showcases how cities are places of projection. Not only do they mean something different to each person, but they’re shaped and coloured by each one of us too — even when we’re simply passing through.
Country represented by installation: Australia
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