Anonymous company- 10,000RMB
SHANGHAI, CHINA- I absolutely love the work of Emma Rytoft. A Swedish artist working as an architect in Shanghai. She believes her work is a reflection on the anonymity of city life...
A reaction to a polish on the surface of everything that disguises and flattens, smooths and conceals.
A blanket of global commercialism is spreading fast, eradicating identities, converting and abstracting life into patterns and colors. City and citizens are merging into an indistinguishable mass.
Erasing the need for direct human contact, the city wraps us up in a colorful bustling blanket and lulls us into a false sense of security and belonging.
Surrounded at all times by anonymous life and unfocused energy we loose ourselves in the struggle to find meaning and recognition. In an attempt to allow our identities to resurface, we play along.
The continuous movement and energy of the citizens interacts with the inherent static state of the physical manifestation of the city to create a tangible friction. Moods, time and temperatures establish and govern the relationships between city and citizen much like those between humans.
The fickle force of the city supports and encourages, traps and threatens, bashes and sometimes even defeats. It leave us struggling, wondering, and searching for an escape, for something to propel us out of the suffocating mass that is keeping us firmly anchored to the ground.
