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The World Of The Exhibition Is Urban Studies, Artists Simon And Tom Brothers

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Through an obscure door, an arc-shaped and bright space appears upon. It seems to be hard to catch the points over space. Massive glass constitutes a wall covering almost half of space, and sunshine penetrates into the gallery. It is pretty windy when I was visiting there, the shadow from clouds rapidly flowing around the ground strongly results in distraction. There is some colourful debris spread everywhere, looking like the small plaster-made cans, lining beneath the wall at the corner. (see fig. 2) Huge security fences of construction site built in the gallery, such like a labyrinth, the canvas covering them with abstract and blurred graffiti. Piles and piles of breeze blocks are put on the ground, they look like the sculptures but without any text intimating. The sand bags settled as an foundation of panels, the colour-dyed glass bottles inserted as the flags. The title of the exhibition is Urban Studies, artists Simon and Tom brothers use the quoting words from Walter Benjamin, as a cue to lead visitors to form their transformative experience. There are three transformations managed to reach, the curatorial habit which is used to regarding as gallery space; the materials from construction to artistic production; viewing experience from closed space to an open and interactive relationship. The key intention behind exhibition is connecting outside environment and inside space. To reflect the relationship of artworks and construction site, there is a response to the

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