Counter Constructs brings together seven artists from the UK and North America in an exhibition exploring strategies of representation and critique of the urban built environment. Responding to the undead ?regeneration? of global development projects and the geologic sediment of spatial histories, the exhibition is a series of implicit proposals and contestations. Un?nished maps, unspeci?ed models, unbuilt plans and unbuilding t…he city – the exhibition is as much about utopia as it is about its folly.

Initially organized by Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas around their research-based collaborative practice, Counter Constructs is a way to extend their dialogue on urban space to a wider range of interpretations. The artists in the show are brought together by
a shared interest in mining the ?structure? of architectural thinking. Comprising a sound installation, a détourned architectural pavilion and a ?oor-drawing altered daily – each work represents a part of a circuitous system of associations and digressions. Auto-Italia
will be temporarily appropriated as a space for the archaeology of urban utopias and the staging of alternative visions.

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