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C.U. (Mexico City, August 2006), 2007
slide installation with 120 slides, two synchronized projectors

The series consists of 120 photographs of the campus of the National University in Mexico City, the "Ciudad Universitaria" (C.U.) today.

My interest lies in the concept and composition of the campus (designed by Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral under the direction of Carlos Lazo) as a modern "city": It combines modernistic principles with historic references, rational architecture in the international style with mystic concepts, and understands the campus as a "Gesamtkunstwerk" according to Bauhaus ideals in which artists and architects work closely together. Furthermore I am interested in architecture as a social space, documenting everyday life on the campus and the ageing of modernist structures through exterior and interior views, architectural details, empty or populated hallways, lecture halls, park ways and social structures.

The photographs will be published in Heidrun Holzfeind "CU / Mexcio 68" by A&R Press, Mexico City in early 2008.

 



 



installation view Galerie im Taxispalais, Austria