Patrick Waterhouse And Mikhael Subotzky; Ponte City
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Notes : The present lot was gifted by the artist to the current owner. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ponte City, Le Bal Paris, 23 January to 20 April 2014 and Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU), 27 June to 11 November 2014. "The photographs are powerful enough to stand alone, in particular the portraits - of a woman dressed in pink in the elevator, a boy squinting through falling white debris, or a girl on tiptoes in her kitchen. They work even better as part of this unfolding collage. Shapes reappear on successive pages; circles and grids constantly refer to the shape of the building. A view from the ground floor looking up at the expansive circular core of the building is followed on the next page by an architectural plan of the snail-shell layout of the apartments, and on the next by a grey aerial view. Turning the pages we zoom out from a shot of one window, then six, then sixteen, then a double page filled with thumbnails. The grids of windows and doors are also subtly echoed in a poster of African flags, among Subotkzy and Waterhouse's found material, and a table of numbers penciled onto squared paper, corresponding to we know not what."¹ 1. Grace Benton (not date) Ponte City, online, https://africasacountry.com/2014/02/ponte-city-a-photobook, accessed 14 May 2025.
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