INVISIBLE CITY (2012)

Technology mirrors our desire to interact, communicate through words and pictures, to define ourselves through interaction with others and to answer the age old questions: Who am I?, How do you perceive me? What power do I have to change the way people think? Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible City, served as inspiration for this body of work. I was thinking about Facebook, cloud computing, iPads and electronic games in relation to this idea of a place with no tangible location that is nevertheless very ‘real’. Calvino speaks about the slippery shortcomings of language and cities as endless happenings, where the distinction between inside and outside is fuzzy at best. He speaks of cities within cities and cities where the present is a simultaneous reflection of the past and present, cities formed by desire and perpetuated by it.