The city is the future
New exhibition at Valencia's IVAM explores urban living around the planet
Using a wide range of media, Ciudad total (or, Total city) brings together the work of artists and writers from all over the planet to explore the dizzy growth of cities over the last 50 years, and where they, and the growing percentage of the world's population who live in them, are headed.
The idea of the exhibition, says its curator, Miguel G. Cortés, is to "analyze the phenomenon, how these changes are affecting our lives in the big cities: the chaos, noise, density, crime, confinement, economic differences, the way that slums can be just a few feet away from exclusive areas, density, fluidity, and the freedom that a city offers us. We wanted to reflect all this; we aren't trying to demonize the city. We wanted to make people think about the major changes that cities have gone through in recent decades, and to change the way that we think about and live in cities."
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