Detroit: Reconstructed Marco Lorenzetti
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There is a self referential nature about pictures of buildings installed on buildings, like a city, looking closely at itself, evaluating what needs to be saved and nurtured, and what needs to be left behind. There is a breaking up, a restructuring of fragments in space. The squares of film act like bricks, or building blocks- sometimes blowing apart, sometimes coming together, but always shifting, constantly changing like the shifting urban development of a city reborn. At times the pictures resemble weavings, but instead of fabric, it's limestone, brick, steel and glass. At times the film squares act as tiles, like a mosaic, transforming the everyday into malleable and expressive bits and pieces. The typical static film frame is shattered, and in place of stagnation, movement takes over and the frame comes to life. The subject is infused with an expressive quality and the feeling is one of seeing a still frame, animated. The subject, made of film, retains all the qualities of the original exposure, little is lost in acuity as the fragments are moved to reshape an old idea and transform it into something recognizable, familiar, yet completely changed, altered with influence to tell a new narrative about a city once golden, once called, “The Paris of the West,” once powerful and revered, but now one of change, one in transformation, a city in the state of becoming, much like the photographs from, “Detroit:Reconstructed.”