In our strictly organized surroundings, the street belongs to everyone and no one. In Streetlogic, photographer Jeroen Arians registers how the everyday objects people leave behind reclaim public space. Unintentionally, these people create temporary spectacles of perfect beauty. Sometimes unreal, absurd, and even outright funny, the spectacles end once the objects are disposed of by waste collectors or given new life by interested strangers.
Teun wrote an essay that complements Arians’ photography by the title of ‘Urban Beauty and the Clean City’ or ‘Stadsschoon en de schone stad’. Teun states that the city will never be perfectly beautiful or clean. The nooks and crannies around the city are forever prompting new adjustments. You can also see that as the definition of urban beauty – contradicting the bourgeois notion of architectural preservation.
Streetlogic is for sale through Jeroen Arians’ website and through publisher Lecturis.
