This work was commissioned by and for RETREKS under the proposition 'How the other half...' and constitute the conceptual-artistic spine of the  unSUNg CITY event: RETREKS unSUNg CITY was first shown as a 'nine story multimedia show' at Kings City Parkade, Johannesburg, September 30, 2000.
Long obsessed with Johannesburg's inner city and its web of significations - a web that complicates Modernism's idealized grid and vertical ambitions - Hobbs's images here enter a field of self-referential illusion. The wavering reflections of buildings within buildings suggests not only mirage but, aesthetically, camouflage; the possibility for concealment and deception, the unreliability of signs.
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Programming and design, Barry Goldman
Stephen Hobbs ° 1972 Johannesburg South Africa
Lives and works in Johannesburg South Africa
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