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City of Small Signs
Kyu Kyu
Cities of Signs · Village / Cityscape
About the work
Evening falling in squares over small roofs.
Over the small roofs, the evening falls in squares.
Slow looking
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Curatorial interpretation
A row of simple orange house shapes runs along the lower edge beneath a dark grey sky filled with falling orange squares; small green trees frame both sides. The mood is quiet, dusk-like and tender. Architecture is reduced to repeatable units such as roofs, doors, windows and facades, so the painting behaves like a map as much as a view. It invites a reading of community as rhythm: many small dwellings forming one shared place. In the exhibition it appears at position 11 (ROOM II), where its role is: quiet/breathing artwork.
Look slowly
Let your eye fall with the squares, slowly, from the top edge down to the roofs.
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