Google Towers


Lambda digital C prints

Read the exhibition essay written by Sean Payne

These images comprised part of the Gooog exhibition which ran from 17 September to 3 October 2014 at Tacit Contemporary Art


Google Earth’s overhead viewpoint looks down onto some of the world’s tallest buildings. In these pictures they appear like toys, the reverse of the usual phallic rendering of skyscrapers in architectural photographs. Their immense structures have been flattened into simple forms in a pattern of crystalline pixels.



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