Urban Sight is a New York centric exhibition of photography and video installation, which examines the urban landscape from the international perspective of three artists, providing commentary on the curious and playful and also the cataclysmic nature of the metropolis.
Guillermo Santos, a photographer, studied anthropology in Colombia.
His “Anti Catalogue Project” reflects his interest in the urban subject through archiving and documentation. In this project he took snapshots of strangers he found on the streets of New York, recording their first name, job and wages.
This project was arrested on September 11 2001. Suddenly Santos felt that the impersonal archive had become as human as the tragedy that had befallen the city. The digital prints are on photochemical paper 17''x 27''
Camilo Morales, also a Columbian artist but now based in Florida photographs reflections in shop windows. Morales creates stories out of the interplay between mannequins inside the windows and the actions of the pedestrians on the street. His 24''x 30” color images hint at the close seductive relationship between commodity and fetish.
In a video installation, New Zealander Charlotte Andrew, cuts between lives of Mayans in 2006 as they congregate for Mexican Independence day, with the ruins of the civilization that once dominated the Yucatan Peninsula. Placed in context with work that has New York as its subject matter, Andrew's work suggests the fall that follows great empires.
