ecumenopolis ii
An exploration of urban spaces as patterning—an outward march of repetition; a future banality. Crafted from urban photographs with corrected perspectives and interlocking features, then digitally wrapped onto a globe and recorded from within, looking out. 2018
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ecumenopolis ii
Trevor Van den Eijnden
Select videos from an indeterminate series
2016–2018
Digital file
Size dependent on projection area
An ecumenopolis is a city without limits. Today cities like Vancouver are truly without limits as evidenced by the collection of global resources that amalgamate in its architecture. These video works place the viewers inside of a world made up of disorienting, repeating architectural motifs, as a response to asking, “If in our buildings we find the world, is our world found in what we build?”
