. Art

12:06:02 Hard Place, web art on detention.
Jenny Polak is an English artist who has discovered while living in Manhattan to work close to a detention center for illegal immigrants. After obtaining a series of maps given through an organization for human rights and prisoners themselves who provided designs of their cells, embarked on its web art project with strong political connotations. It's called Hard Place , and there has also collaborated webdesigner Lauren Gill. The site shows the architectures in computer graphics than ten different detention centers across the United States, noting the inhuman conditions in which the prisoners live. You can see, in this abstract representation, the labyrinths of cells without windows, claustrophobic corridors and the gray areas. The structures are shown perloppiù no representations of human beings, and the author does not claim that all that is shown is faithful to reality. These images, however, are a significant middle ground between the reconstruction of reality and the nightmare that its inhabitants live daily. For the avoidance of doubt has been also included the original material, which shows how often the detainees are deprived of civil rights, through drawings and audio clips leaked by the prisoners themselves. It took a year to collect the material, shown in the site through icons keyholes. The work stands on two levels: one is to use a software like the CAD for representation unusual, that is not a glittering architectural project or an old church, but a royal palace in its most reliable hypothesis, with all its unforgiving construction standards. The other is to show to people living with people of other ethnic groups in the U.S., as they are treated on their arrival in the country, countering the pseudo-xenophobic propaganda of the government.