Shadow Empire 2015
HD, PAL, colour, silent
Duration: 4.03"
HD, PAL, colour, silent
Duration: 4.03"
Shadow Empire presents a slow motion transition from the heroic column that holds a proportionally rather small statue of Nelson, situated on Trafalgar Square, to the equally monumental towering ‘Gestalt’ of the Shard. Here, the gradual evolution of the national monument into the global icon creates a temporal yet seamless visual intertwining of past and present.
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Considering that the shard was financed by the state of Qatar this ‘new modern-day monument’ seems to signal a territorial shift from national to global economic power. Hence the renewed trend for high density, high-rise architecture might also inaugurate a new kind of icon, one that is free from any national allegiances.
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