Nans Bortuzzo: After Foreclosure


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    After Foreclosure

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    Video

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    5min

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    After Foreclosure traces the evolution of the United States’ urban and suburban landscape from Google Street View images produced between 2008 and 2019, a period beginning with the subprime financial crisis. The title of the work refers to the many foreclosures carried out by banks and cities following the collapse of the real estate market, afflicting thousands of lives as well as the land and collective  imaginary.
    The diptych to the left of the video superimposes images of the inhabited neighbourhoods before the crisis with the wastelands they have become or the concrete streets of city centers where the makeshift shelters of evicted families are now piled up. On the right, satellite images of these same places are displayed simultaneously and activate local radio stations. Radio commentators add depth to the visual content and reveal parts of the narrative fabric against which the daily lives of the people affected are played out.A complex narrative emerges from the segmented organization of the video, linking large and small scales and the diverse temporalities of the images and the sounds on the same plane. After Foreclosure underlines the relationship between data (financial, informational) and the social and cultural realities it obscures, while giving voice to current concerns that revive— poetically and politically—the crises of the past imprinted on the landscape.

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