Tales From The Common Space, 2017
The images from the 2018 WMA Masters 'Transition'. The series 'Tales From The Common Space' taps into the urban anthropological archive for the bizarre, humorous, and often absurd within the borders of the common space - areas of public use but subdivided for the continuous urban sprawl.
Included in this gallery, the original 10 images in the selection and the layout at the final show.
Artist statement
Build. Renovate. Demolish. These are common themes within this bustling and ever mutating city. As occupants, we rarely dwell on the incomplete and put aside thoughts of what lies beneath the shroud of construction. Occasionally, along the monotonous borders of metal fencing and tarpaulin, one is exposed to moments that catch the attention. The bizarre. The poignant. The humorous. Something familiar and yet undecipherable.
‘Tales from the common space’ is part of a larger ongoing anthropological project that explores the urban landscape for signs of creation, decay, life and death while unveiling the effects of mankind on the landscape.
Berton Chang, 2017