Andy Parsons: Tokyo Residency 2009
Cardboard City
Andy Parsons, Artist-in-Residency at S.I.B. Contemporary Art Tokyo
2009.11.7 - ongoing till Jan 2010
Andy Parsons has produced an installation filling the gallery with a cardboard city, and populating the environment with hoodies. The hooded figures represent the marginalized and anonymous. The environment, created from discarded cardboard boxes, is a comment on the current ecomomic crisis and its impact around the world.
The cardboard city also plays with ideas about architectural style and urban planning, utopias and dystopias. Using quotations from 1960s architecture the installation links Tokyo with Parsons home town of Coventry in England, notorious for its massive swaths of concrete.
