Terrain Re-Framed
Eclipse of a (Tenditiously) Authentic Barbican
The Re-framed terrain creates multiple and unexpected spaces for photographers, local and foreign. The gaps in the façade and the lights through the gaps frame unusual views toward the city, the Barbicanian context, and the people in this building.
It uses its undulated floors and thresholds to distract the viewers into looking at the materiality of Barbican, the everyday lives of local residents, and the development process of photos.
Barbican does not tell it stories. But they are written in the hidden corners of corridors where light does not irradiate, on the machines in the basement whose noises cannot be heard, and on the decayed bricks where visions are distracted from.
Hao Yu Chen