Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Claudia Sohrens. Schauplatz # 18 (Greenpoint Warehouse), 2006. All rights reserved

Artist Statement

SCHAUPLÄTZE The machine ate the nice little houses with funny windows and gardens, the vacant lots and deserted factories. It bulldozed everything every day, destroyed everything in the process... dreams and nightmares - rolling relentlessly towards oblivion. Schauplatz {m} site, stage, scene, venue, locale, location, showplace, theatre [Br.], theater [Am.] Schauplatz {m} eines Dramas setting of a drama Schauplatz {m} des Verbrechens scene of crime In my daily documentation of the loss of much familiar and comfortable, I catalog and archive endangered physical and human landscapes around me. All photographs were taken between 1997-2008 with a Mamiya 7 II.

16 Comments

Stunning! the spewed wooden parcels help guide the eye around an otherwise impressionistic-painting. The boarded windows of the strong building emphasize what once was a solid, powerful, structure of humanity. KUDOS!

This photo's use of colour distinguishes it from more mundane shots of recent demolition.

Wonderful composition and great depth.

definitely b'klyn.... lots of garbage

We have to be aware of what is happening around us. These photographers are making the day-to-day changes take a form for all to reconsider.

title and image reminscent of WWII concentration camp...

artist's title and description are nice complements to this unsettling document image resonates with grainy black and white photographs showing mountains of personal effects found in the death camps

It's not clear by the language if this is in Brooklyn. (Label takes away from the image.)

A great photo. THe best of \ They're Tearing Down Brooklyn angst

It looks like the path to ruin on its way home, but who and what is home?

It is very crowded and I do not like it so much. Why is there all garbage, people should clean it up. — Posted by olivia g

NICE ART WORK!!! — Posted by ANTOINETTE

VERY ATTRACTIVE ART WORK — Posted by LAUNA

this is what the ny will ook like in the next five or six year if people don't take care or the earth — Posted by unknown

why is it not in a trash? — Posted by Rebecca (8 yrs)

This looks so colorfull and beautiful — Posted by Shenice David