New
Living
Barranquilla, 2020, ongoing
The New Living series is a body of work about the rhythm and structures of newly built upper-middle class neighborhoods rising up on the outskirts of Barranquilla.
As I walked around the gated communities, I was overcome by a feeling of artificiality and isolation. The rhythm of these settlements seems to have sprung from a computer, cold and calculated, pragmatically following a purely economic benefit.
Who lives here? What grows between the right angles, the elongated lines, the mirrored windows? A neighborhood? Relationships? Exchange? Encounters?
The series examins photographically the concepts we base the creatinon of urban spaces on meant for our coexistence. The industrial production of living spaces, the alienation from our natural instincts when choosing our homes.
The New Living series is a body of work about the rhythm and structures of newly built upper-middle class neighborhoods rising up on the outskirts of Barranquilla.
As I walked around the gated communities, I was overcome by a feeling of artificiality and isolation. The rhythm of these settlements seems to have sprung from a computer, cold and calculated, pragmatically following a purely economic benefit.
Who lives here? What grows between the right angles, the elongated lines, the mirrored windows? A neighborhood? Relationships? Exchange? Encounters?
The series examins photographically the concepts we base the creatinon of urban spaces on meant for our coexistence. The industrial production of living spaces, the alienation from our natural instincts when choosing our homes.
© Marvin Systermans — Berlin