London Festival of Architecture 2008
Embassies Project: Barbara Holub
Tuesday 8 - Thursday 31 July 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
On the occasion of this year’s London Festival of Architecture Embassies Project the Austrian Cultural Forum will present More Opportunities, based on Barbara Holub’s first UK solo exhibition at the Plymouth Arts Centre in 2007. Barbara Holub is an artist, architect and urban designer who examines social and personal identities through the modes of visual art, urban intervention and architecture. She lives and works in Vienna.
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More Opportunities addresses issues of regeneration and the search of a new identity of place and its people – symptomatic of many areas around England. Holub examines locations of significant identity transformation relating to the people in and around the area. In Plymouth Holub focused on the Davenport and Naval Base areas, parts of which are being transformed into privatised social housing. The feeling and sense of lost opportunity in these areas of regeneration is symptomatic of many current examples of public-private-partnerships. An unclear identity, resulting from the ongoing process of transformation of one’s own environment, is accompanied by the hope and generalised desire for ‘more opportunities’.