"In her series “Nummianus” (2006-2007) Klenz is interested in the critical exploration of displacement and the collapse of a sense of rootedness regarding the notion of place."
Given I am now looking at rows houses I was particualrly intersted in the compositional elements and the layout of this series as much as anything. I find it interesting that Klenz has chosen to join the images together, its a different way of looking at a row of very facially similar houses.
"Klenz engages through the method of repetition and sequence with the idea of decentring the viewer. The viewer is forced to encounter not only the outmoded and marginalised space of these estates but also engage with the history of each individual house."
It is this reference to individuality within the sequencing that most interests me with regards to my work. In fact, to some extent I hope this statement works with my final work.
"“Nonsuch” concentrates on the ‘model’town Poundbury and represents an interesting development of Steffi Klenz’s exploration of space and artificiality presented in the series “A Scape”.
Tying “Nonsuch” in with the language of landscape and cityscape photography, she intends to associate her new series to sensibilities such as issues of space, control and ownership.
Poundbury, a model urban development in Dorset is an engaging phenomenon in the history of British urban planning, since it is amongst the most recent of model or new towns including such major post-World War 2 developments such as Milton Keynes or those philanthropic projects of the industrial revolution such as Bourneville, New Lanark or Port Sunlight. The town of Poundbury is built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwell and planned by the architect Leon Krier, owning its conceptual structure to the principles set out in Prince Charles book “A Vision of Britain” (1989).
The intellectual roots of the photographic series “Nonsuch” are within the tradition of utopia and comprise Klenz’s engagement with the ‘perfect place’ and the ‘ideal civic society’. In her series, Klenz is mostly interested in the exploration of the material realisation of what often remains imaginary."
Tying “Nonsuch” in with the language of landscape and cityscape photography, she intends to associate her new series to sensibilities such as issues of space, control and ownership.
Poundbury, a model urban development in Dorset is an engaging phenomenon in the history of British urban planning, since it is amongst the most recent of model or new towns including such major post-World War 2 developments such as Milton Keynes or those philanthropic projects of the industrial revolution such as Bourneville, New Lanark or Port Sunlight. The town of Poundbury is built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwell and planned by the architect Leon Krier, owning its conceptual structure to the principles set out in Prince Charles book “A Vision of Britain” (1989).
The intellectual roots of the photographic series “Nonsuch” are within the tradition of utopia and comprise Klenz’s engagement with the ‘perfect place’ and the ‘ideal civic society’. In her series, Klenz is mostly interested in the exploration of the material realisation of what often remains imaginary."
What really attracts me to this is how surreal the images are. It's like the place isnt real.
However it's more the context of the images. Klenz's exploration of place and space is both visually and theoretically interesting to me.
