Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus
Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus

Exhibition Opening Homo Urbanus

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6 cities / 6 stories, 1 panoramatic projection.

Critically acclaimed filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, who are perhaps two of the foremost architectural artists working today, will come to Prague to introduce their project Homo Urbanus.

What is Homo Urbanus?

Walking in unknown cities to collect impressions, to catch a vibration, to gather situations and things seen at the angle of a street, on a crossroad, from the top of a building. Depicting a city in its present, in the simplicity of its daily life. Listening to its rumble, the sound of its depths. Slipping into its rhythm. To be on the lookout, in a continuous wonder towards the imagination and creativity men have managed to develop to find a way to live together. Asking ourselves what makes a city, trying to understand its silent rules, its habits, its imperfections, its difficulties, and its unique way to answer the endless question: Where do we go? This project tries to collect a few elements of answer. These visual notes, made on the fly, look at the urban inhabitant within his group and in his deep solitude, redrawing the outline of each city following a sentimental geography. This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 5 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, SaintPetersburg and Rabat. The 6th step of this project being currently shot in Japan. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

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