FW: That shimmering beast - the capture of urban life at The Empty Quarter

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Dear Mr.Tercan,

 

You are Cordially Invited to the opening of " That shimmering beast – the capture of urban life   " Photography exhibition by Virgilio Ferreira, Merhdad Naraghi, Miyuki Okuyama. Tuesday   June 8th   2010 , hope you can make it .

 

 

Opening reception is on Tuesday June 8th   2010 , 7 pm - 11pm.

Book Launch “ Uncanny places ” by Virgilio Ferreira will be present for Book signing

 

 

We humans like to think we can control cities because we are the ones building them,

but trying to comprehend their living essence, all we grasp is thin air. The city, that entity

which lies beneath the web of codes and signs we weave, reveals itself only in glimpses,

in instants separated by intervals, in the glint of light in the fog, in the shadows of our

dreams. Its essence flits through our minds like a beast shimmering in the thicket.

 

Now you see it, now you don’t, but you sense its presence. “You can hunt for it,” Marco Polo

tells the Great Khan in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, ”but only in the way I have said”.

This is the beast we see shimmering, scattered, fragmented, but eerily present nonetheless,

in the work of Virgilio Ferreira, Miyuki Okuyama and Mehrdad Naraghi. They each

hunt in their own way, following its trail, exploring the tracks it leaves behind, either in

their inner selves or out on the streets.

 

Planted in our consciousness like seeds, these images grow over time, pollinating our

imagination. As cognitive organisms they branch out to reach a point of contact with one

another, and another web of meaning and ideas is woven. Suddenly, we are overcome

by the strange sensation of knowing something, without quite knowing what that thing

might be. We look again, and for a moment we see it staring straight at us from their

work, that shimmering beast. Then, in the blink of an eye, it is gone again.

Cities seem to mirror our state of mind and reveal secrets that can

be decoded when minute details are looked at: it is between the

lines that I seek ambiguities and contradictions.

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