From the exhibition "Milan senza confini" at Spazio
Oberdan, Milan shown during April 2000
and was commissioned by Provincia di Milano, Italy in 1998.
Extract from the exhibition catalouge:
The work from Milan is very much an exploration of the changes
taking place in this industrial city.
These images are about property / real estate and the recent building developments
created through
the rapid growth of service industries. These are often new office buildings
which have been built on
cleared land, mostly on sites which were once central to Milan's manufacturing
industry.
Next to these images of buildings are a series of detailed
images of the ground, of footpaths and
roads - the public places walked on every day . With these apparently insignificant
sections of
common ground I want to suggest the value of our shared spaces and to signify
a sense
of collective property, ownership and belonging.
These sets of images appear to be separate in illustrating
the domains of both public and private
property. They are both very much the products of our collective human landscape
and are
symptomatic of the values and condition in which we live.
