Photo Exhibition “City Tales” by Gaia Agostini

Thu 08 Dec 2016, 7 – 11 pm
KE QUÁN
81 Xuan Dieu, Hanoi

From the organizer:

Does a perfect city really exist? Is it like a lover? Can you compare a city to a companion? If someone asked you to describe the perfect city, how would your answer them? Would you think about a city that already exists? Or would you combine different features of different cities you’ve been to?

Cities respond to our projections. A city might be perfect in one period, but it might be a nightmare in another one, with different dreams and fears, other expectations and other rhythms of life.

Wandering around cities, around spaces and places, my questions keep coming. Reading Calvino, a cities wanderer and utopian city researcher, many places I’ve been came to my mind. While reading, images from my past, beautiful and dramatic, sad and happy, kept arising. These pictures tell stories, my stories, my projections, my expectations. Other eyes and other minds will have their own alternative narration. Pictures and texts are just hints to think about Your cities, Your places, Your spaces. You can label the pictures with other names, or write down a name of a city or a place, which comes into mind while reading the texts: “It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” (Italo Calvino)

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