Time and the City: Exhibit @ Cafe Le Zigoto

Photographs by Rohan Quinby

Le Zigoto Café
5731 ave. du Parc
Montreal, Quebec
10 July – 30 August

new york: spectre

What is the relationship of cities to time? How do cities contain time? How do they express temporality? These are some of the questions I have tried to address in this series of photographs, taken in New York, Dublin, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Vancouver and Montreal. My understanding of urban temporality comes in part from my reading of the great urban theorist Lewis Mumford. Mumford viewed the city as both a material and immaterial container; as such, cities possess the capacity to contain different experiences of temporality. Beyond Mumford’s vision of a simple co-presence of different times, his conception of urban space opens the possibility of times other than the dead, repetitive time of contemporary capitalism. It is an analysis suggesting the development of multiple times within the urban container, times exceeding contemporary capitalism’s apparatuses of capture.

Prints may be purchased for $100.00 cdn each on photographic paper, $175 on canvas.

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new york: organic time

 

barcelona: house of spirits

 

montreal: jacques cartier

 

chicago: stratigraphy

 

barcelona: veiled

 

hong kong: presenting chungking

 

dublin: remembrance

 

montreal: summer

 

barcelona: shroud