#backdoorsofembassies

[hemanchong]

I like my work on covers of magazines and I cannot lie. “Foreign Affairs is a series of banal photographs of #embassy #backdoors. The #systematic #repetition of #images #simultaneously recalls a #cinematic frame and the #omnipresence of the #surveillance #camera that #watches #nothing and #everything. As a #literal and #cumulative #representation of embassy backdoors, each #image of a backdoor can be read as #infrastructural, making apparent the very form of the non-descript embassy backdoor and its component parts: greenery as camouflage, the lone face of a strategically positioned surveillance camera, the additional lock or additional gates. These banal representations are the threshold of the exceptional space of the embassy, which in and of itself is the physical manifestation of an agreement between two states of respective sovereignty.” Text by @kat_ditzig #artasiapacificmagazine @artasiapacific #HemanChong #BackdoorsOfEmbassies #CoverOfAMagazine (at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRTCVqFFQLk/?utm_medium=tumblr