Santuario
Ribas, Xavier
At the periphery the city illuminates itself, negatively. Every image seized there, at the precipice where the urban compulsively extinguishes itself, is a story so concertinaed by sensation or absence that it fixes the eye profoundly into that image. Human life has been swept away with magisterial cruelty or nonchalance, but the emanation projected by the empty zones of street...
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At the periphery the city illuminates itself, negatively. Every image seized there, at the precipice where the urban compulsively extinguishes itself, is a story so concertinaed by sensation or absence that it fixes the eye profoundly into that image. Human life has been swept away with magisterial cruelty or nonchalance, but the emanation projected by the empty zones of streets, highways, buildings, pivots on a kind of neural inkling within the membranes of the eye, an intimation of vision that something may be resuscitated or restituted from the detritus that forms that void. In Europe, from Marseilles, to Berlin, to Rome, to London, the cities are engulfed: rendered into negligible corporate outposts, all images relentlessly pitted-out, except on their resistant peripheries. Europe survives as a caustic residue on those peripheries.
The photographic works of Xavier Ribas presented in this book are a reflection on peripheries and the symbolic and biographical nature of urban spaces.
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| Table of contents: Piedras Stones 2000 Londres London 2001-2002 Flores Flowers 1998-2000 Habitaciones Rooms 1997 Umbrales Thresholds 2001-2002 Zonas periféricas (por Stephen Barber) Sin título Untitled 2002-2003 Peripheral Zones (by Stephen Barber) Umbrales Thresholds 2001-2002 Santuario Sanctuary 2002 Piedras Stones 2000 Fuegos Fires 2000 |
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