Photobook Venice

DEPICTING LIMITS Claudiu Forgaci

‘Intensified Vision’ IUAV, Venice, 2013

The limit is more than just a mere line separating two spaces. In fact, it is not even separating all the time.

Sometimes it is a border but sometimes it is a place of intense interaction. Either way, we perceive limits because they are extremely spatial. Yet, they are not always fixed spaces, they change with time. Therefore, when describing limits, we should not use only static images. They are suggested by processes of construction, by the flows and activities that they host, by their specific materials, by the contrast between the spaces that they relate or separate, by the objects that they concentrate‌ We might read the city as a complex system of limits where the quality of spaces depend on wether these limits connect or separate. In this visual sequence, infrastructures, industrial sites, underground passages, temporary fences, are mainly pictured as limits or concentrations of limits that cut off the spaces that they separate.

The limit is not only something to be seen here. It is obvious or suggested, imagined or questioned, constructed or deconstructed, used or abandoned, projected or recycled.

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