https://www.maimano.hu/programs/katharina-roters-anatomy-of-a-dream
ANATOMY OF A DREAM: ARCHITECTURAL PHANTASMS AND URBAN UTOPIAE IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN | METSAMOR: THE ARMENIAN ATOMIC CITY | UTOPIA AND COLLAPSE
I really like Katharina Roters’ visual style; how she frames the lines and shapes within the frame, making entertaining images out of documenting derelict parts of cities.
Her photographs are quite sad and show a potential that never came to be. The bold and colourful buildings left abandoned resonated with me. There was an attempt at a better way of life that never happened due to greed and nuclear disaster.
This section of the exhibition was in the last room and it brought all the previous themes together in a simplified example of the plans for improvement in the community which were abandoned and never carried through. The bare bones of the House of Culture hold so much potential as a place for the community and its really depressing to see it so derelict and empty.
I really liked this exhibition and how Roters was able to tell a story about a big subject at such a close perspective. I like that just by showing evidence of human activity without showing people it was still just as effective at showing the effect it had on the population.
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