Arbus & Attia

In the first room of Attia's work he  explores 'inhuman modernism' of post war housing estates. in his work Attia portrays urban lanscape as an 'eerie landscape of repetition',also bringing attention to the demeaning effects caused by the way that modernist housing blocks were built in similar fashion/principle to that of 'surveillance and control' that were used to 'Subdue colonial populations'. 

Attia connects the treatment of colonised objects that are in museums, to how France treats its immigrant population in present day. With the argument  that 'complex control machinery which started with the accumulation of objects in cabinets of curiosity continues today with the accumulation of people in these open sky jails'.

In this room the work consisted of a short video, photography and two sculptures a brick and a metal works sculpture that looks like estates similar to the ones Attia shows in his photography.i like how this room tells its story starting with a single brick leading to the video, it helps to build up the story and understanding of his work.

The second room of Attia's work starts to have more meaning as he looks at the personal lives of the immigrants that live Paris, showing their close relationships between these Algerian transgender sex workers. Attia wanted to capture the moments of joy, hopes and happiness these people have regardless of the fact that they immigrants that work as transgender sex workers, he wanted to show the full story/picture of their lives. this work is part of a bigger series that was taken of the community of over approximately two years.

Although Attis's subject matter doesn't link to mine his way of work does link to my work, or the way I should work for this and future projects, you can tell that he created a good relationship with the community in order to capture these intimate moments. the relationship that he creates gives comfort and familiarity which in turn allows him to capture all these different moments.