MEETING POINT Anna Podekova. Urban and Suburban Landscapes

26 April 2005 - 15 May 2005

The map is the means of traveling for the dreamer who will never leave home and make his travels come true. It is a way to lose yourself or not to lose yourself, depending on your familiarity with the conditionality and its signs. 

Maps are a brief literature category, too. They speak many languages, describing the places they show. They are the pictures of the earth redrawn by people, and urban pictures reflect the even more complex and sometimes weird image created by the necessity of man to ensure his comfort. There is everything in this exhibition - islands for the dreamers, cities for the urban people, historic maps for the nostalgic people, political maps for the dabblers in politics. 

Viewers are in their own right to select the approach to this exhibition –treating them as geographic maps with the pleasure-provoking intellectual game of decoding them, or as abstractions loaded with the aesthetic beauty of the color and shape.