In this exhibition the
artists deal with urban space in various ways.
Suburbs are spaces where both the best and the worst of
modern social life are visible. Suburbia plays a dominant
role in people’s lives - it’s a place of work, commerce,
worship, education or leisure. Urban critic Lewis Mumford
described suburbia as a “multitude of uniform,
unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform
distances, on uniform roads,” yet many very different
stories are playing out in these seemingly uniform spaces.
The physical environment of suburbia conveys past, present
and future ideas about us and the world.
In Frieda Sonnekus's digital works the female
city stroller and the shopper, the flâneuse, is
depicted; from an aerial and geographic perspective and
almost mathematically Eric Duplan renders urban space in
terms of site and place in his paintings; and the city as
artifice and designed space is rendered in Gordon Froud's
sculptures and functional objects.
Frieda Sonnekus
