{"id":13090,"date":"2012-07-20T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=13090"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:42:50","slug":"lori-nix-the-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=13090","title":{"rendered":"Lori Nix \/ The City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13089\" title=\"Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360.jpg 700w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Lori_Nix_Mall___Edition_of_15_18385_360-250x175.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a>Mall, Edition of 15 chromogenic print, 40 x 57 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 7 \u2013 21, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BAU-XI PHOTO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lori Nix captures a city that no longer exists in her series <em>The City<\/em>. There is no human present\u00a0in these\u00a0photographs. Buildings that have seen better days, like churches and theatres, are now abandoned by the people who once cared for them &#8211;\u00a0even treasured them. Their roofs are leaking; their walls are falling in. Their beauty is scarred but still not completely ruined.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the places in these images, like the\u00a0Neo-Romanesque <em>Church<\/em>, are now filled with rubbish and left to slow decline by the elements. The four horses in <em>Fountain<\/em> follow the composition of the Versailles&#8217; Apollo Fountain,\u00a0but now they are\u00a0inside without the magic of the water. The library (<em>Circulation desk<\/em>) in a rotunda is now open only to birds\u00a0as it longer has a roof\u00a0 while the books are still on the selves. Surely once\u00a0people populated and admired those places.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happened to this city? Gabriel Garcia M\u00e1rquez\u2019 One Hundred Years of Solitude comes to my mind when I look at the image titled <em>Mall<\/em>. In the background of the photograph the shops with\u00a0the occasional\u00a0mannequins are still visible \u00a0and it is easy to imagine the upscale stores with expensive clothes and pretty ladies looking longingly at them. Their old glamour still hangs in the air but\u00a0 only ghosts visit them\u00a0now. Originally it must have been a forest that people cleared to build the city and now the original vegetation is taking back the ground\u00a0as in Marques\u2019 novel. Instead of life and laughter stillness and silence dominate the place. I don\u2019t feel any catastrophic present here, just a deep solitude. People, for some reason, left this place behind. It radiates the painful nostalgia of good old times gone. Melancholy rules forever.<\/p>\n<p>Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 7 \u2013 21, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BAU-XI PHOTO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People, for some reason, left this place behind. It radiates the painful nostalgia of good old times gone. 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