“A world without frontiers is an ideal that has always appeared to the more sincerely humanist individual as a world from which all forms of exclusion have been abolished”. “The notion of frontiers remains rich and complex. It does not necessarily signify compartmentalisation and separation. The ideal, egalitarian world may come not through the abolition of frontiers, but through their recognition”
Marc Auget Non Places 2008 2nd edition.
The project has gained clarity with my clarification and understanding behind my theme, this is brilliant as it now frees me to concentrate on the work itself from practical point of view.
I’m finding that having established an aesthetic that proved to be quite successful early on in the project I am concerned that I do not circumvent a process tat may well have led me to a different aesthetic. So right now Im looking at artists who work in the tableau genre notable for their use of image construction treat this genre, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Kruger, Peter Kennard, Karen Knorr to name a few and then artists like Alex Prager, Gregory Crewdson and to an extreme level David LaChapelle who create fantasy contstructed worlds for their characters to inhabit.
Each artist has used a different approach to make various points, some political, some purely aesthetic or humorous. Karen Knorr in her series Villa Savoye explores bourgeois lifestyles with architectural studies and added elements to create indexical qualities of the photographic to invite the viewer to read the image raising questions of ownership, locality and identity.