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Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities

Text by David Campany, Text by Victoria del Val

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Reinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis Image Cities takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of â€œglobal interconnectedness.â€ We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy faÃ§ades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected. It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylovaâ€™s photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichÃ©s of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations - their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with clichÃ©, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photographyâ€™s role in the creation of a gap between these citieâ€™s brand identity and their everyday reality.

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