Those who look down from the heights conjecture about what is happening in the city; they wonder if it would be pleasant or unpleasant to be in Irene that evening. Not that they have any intention of going there but Irene is a magnet for the eyes and thoughts of those who stay up above.
(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)

In Italo Calvino‘s book Invisible cities Marco Polo reports on the different cities he has visited. For instance he tells about a place named Irene which is a city that can be seen only from the distance but never from inside. People gather at a high plateau where they have an impressive view of Irene‘s skyline and talk the whole time about how they imagine life there could be. But never anybody went down to check how everyday life in this city really was, if the structure they see from the plateau even is objectively a city.

The object in the distance functions as the ideal projection screen: it is the image of potentiality per se and within the speculation about its nature desire becomes manifest. The works in this ongoing series take cities as mental and emotional displays of their inhabitants and visitors. They focus on images, emotions and contradictions related with ideas and notions of the postmodern metropolis, which appear, blend, conflict and caricature themselves.