Sliced and diced, perhaps even pink washed. When I look at this isolated Małgosia Woźnica GIF included in AFC’s latest curated project, Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies, I am struck by the Constructivist way in which an 8-bit revitalized city block has been built. Skyscrapers rise, markets crash, but the sidewalks stay level. There is a bemusement here regarding modular pre-fab idealism, but a hopefulness in how the grid “expands and contracts”. Often, due to budget constraints, these buildings look like what we think a cityscape is supposed to look, an echo of modernist utopianism. Woźnica, in her series of GIFs which were originally conceived in 2013 for an ANI GIF Gallery show curated by Sarah Caluag and Daniel Rehn, supposes rapid cyclical development that shifts and expands, but doesn’t really go further beyond the firmament. Buildings switch in and out, even regurgitate, but how the architectural models here sustain hopefulness is mystifying.
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