2010 Exhibition: Shelter | Paul Ferman

2010 Exhibition: Shelter
9 February - 6 March 2010

Shelter

While open urban spaces represent democratic, commercial and mainstream social values, disregarded urban spaces represent othernes, displacement and loss of social value.

Invisible spaces are imbued with a sense of having left the safety of social order and are therefore places in which risk becomes a given when encountering that space.

As public urban spaces expand and contract with shifting populations so do the invisible spaces. As a result of this movement these spaces house populations that oscillate between urban normality and moral upheaval. Issues such as race religion illicit social behaviour , sexuality and poverty can all be found floundering in these ‘spaces of no value’, further marginalising them and legitimising their oulaw status.

With passengers seated inside cocooned and protected, the train screams through endless concrete shelters. Dangerous spaces that seem to simmer in an artificial reality.

Paul Ferman