The Radiant City
Irlande
2016Library Project
The paradox of utopia, as “good-place” but also “no-place” was the starting point for this project. The utopia is an ideal creation of the mind yet it can’t be separated from the real place that inspires it. Our projections of utopia enhance our experience of place, allowing us to give meaning to the world by believing it differently.
This project explores the idea of utopia through one of the icons of modernism -Le Corbusiers Unite d’Habition in Marseille. Designed in 1952 as the “Radiant City”, the building was conceived as prototype housing for the city of the future. These photographs were made at the Unité over 60 years later, in the summer of 2014 and address the relationship between place making and image making and the role of both architecture and photography in constructing the ideal.
With the support of the Irish Cultural Institute and the Le Corbusier Foundation © FLC.
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About the artist
Aisling McCoy, born in 1981, is a graduate photographer from the masters program at the Belfast School of
Art. Her project “The Radiant City” has been exhibited in Belfast, Dublin and Pingyao. The series was selected for the Kassel Photobook Dummy Award in 2015 and is part of a traveling exhibition presented in several festivals (Kassel, Braga, Madrid, Paris …)
With the support of the Irish Cultural Institute and the Le Corbusier Foundation © FLC.
