Urban fugues, as an ode to the contribution of cultural heritage to resilience, challenge the assumption of a (post) pandemic urban fear depopulating the city. As a composition of quadriptychs celebrating the sense of place. As an emotional connection to the symbolic significance of a legacy. As four parts in imitation of each other, seemingly academic, but opening to public space diversity. Three scenes stable in time, one ever changing. Fragile harmony relying on our ability to bounce forward, to reinvent urban citizens role, from awareness to appropriation. Urban fugues, as keynotes linking the beauty of an urban grid to citizens’ needs.
“Urban fugues” display a series of 4 quadriptychs picturing the entrance of the “Cour Damoye,” Paris, built in 1780. Each quadriptych shows three scenes printed on argentic paper treated with fixing agent alternating with one untreated.
