Groesch/Metzger > A Village in the City, disappearing (2005)

Installation consisting of
10 photographs mounted on Aludibond (50 x 75 cm each)
and 7 B/W-Laserprints with texts and archive photographies
(75 x 100 and 135 x 100 cm, mounted on the wall)
Width: approx. 13 Meters.

View of the Installation: Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 2005

Taking the Olympic Village of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1932 as a starting point „A Village in the City, disappearing“ examines the changes of urban space in Los Angeles.
The Olympic Village of the 1932 Games was the first Olympic Village ever built in modern times. It consisted of 600 wooden cottages, which were sold, dismantled and removed directly after the Games.
Including also the wrong information about the location of the village, the work develops a net of historic and spatial relations, which comprises very different places like f. e. one of the wealthiest black neighborhoods in the US, a former artists community in Orange County and the first garden city neighborhood in Los Angeles.

The work has been realized with the support of Villa Aurora Los Angeles and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art.

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