CityStates is a cluster of international exhibitions, initiated and supported by embassies, foreign governments, international agencies or galleries, exploring the cultural dynamics between cities and states.
It is often cities that excite artists rather than 'nations’, but any contemplation of cities also involves considering the state. Today more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and predictions show this will grow to 70% by 2030. Global migration has given rise to a dual allegiance shared between the city we live and work in and the place or nationality of our birth, culture or ancestry. Without doubt the state of cities increasingly determines the future of states.
This is my pictures taken from 3rd floor CUC exhibition. I think this is the most beautiful view from CUC Novas "City States" exhibition. This is only my opinion and I can be wrong...but...there were no pieces of art that touched my imagination or soul. Sorry....
In the lower ground floor I discovered interesting short film 'Flow' by Sakakibara Sumito from Japan.
An open space which seems to be a part of a small village or town is projected directly into the work like a picture scroll, in this planar composition. In this place people are chasing cats, riding on a bike, holding a wedding and crossing a bridge with the help of a stick. And never knowing when the camera will zoom in on these people the scene never shifts from the original composition and people continue chasing cats endlessly, go on riding bikes, holding weddings repeatedly, and crossing the bridge with a help of a stick over and over again. The viewers will find various things in the relativity of those people and their endless activities going on as if in a loop.
