Gowanus is a neighborhood in full transformation where classic-style semi-detached houses and old renovated industrial warehouses are mixed. Today, its transformation is attracting hipsters and creative people who are creating studios and modern art galleries. An update process that involves a strong gentrification process.
“This work originated in the pandemic lockdown in New York City, when I began exploring the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Red Hook and Gowanus. I first documented structures that interested me – an enormous old granary, the cranes used to unload shipping containers, the highest train station in New York City. Eventually I turned my focus to the Gowanus Canal, an extremely polluted waterway with an industrial past and a gentrified future.
I began taking photographs with a small camera drone hovering low over the water, and discovered the simple technique of "flipping" the resulting images. I looked for inspiration to monotypes by Degas, paintings by Monet, Constable, and others, and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The photographs are landscapes which exist at the edges of environmental destruction; peril reflecting life.”
I began taking photographs with a small camera drone hovering low over the water, and discovered the simple technique of "flipping" the resulting images. I looked for inspiration to monotypes by Degas, paintings by Monet, Constable, and others, and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The photographs are landscapes which exist at the edges of environmental destruction; peril reflecting life.”
Michael Moran
"_2B space to be" continues the program of the exhibition course, with which they want to continue giving visibility to different artists who approach in a contemporary way and criticize the temporal dimension of space and our relationship with it.
