Void

'What is to be done with these enormous voids, with their imprecise limits and vague definition? Art's reaction, as before with "nature" (which is also the presence of "the other" for the urban citizen), is to preserve these alternative, strange spaces, strangers to the productive efficiency of the city. If in ecology we find the struggle to preserve the unpolluted spaces of a nature mythicized as the unattainable mother, contemporary art seems to fight for the preservation of these other spaces in the interior of the city...The enthusiasm for these vacant spaces - expectant, imprecise, fluctuating - transposed to the urban key, reflects our strangeness in front of the world, in front of our city, before ourselves' 

Ignasi de Solà Morales

Image courtesy Bill Henson