Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City sex Henrike Naumann examines the aesthetics

Henrike Naumann examines the aesthetics of (contemporary) fascism and the question of how political power can be staged through (interior) architecture

which confronts the often reductive or simplistic notion of “social design” and offers novel forms of critical and meaningful engagement in today’s world of mounting social contradictions

and ending with an interview with Christoph for the journal Dot Dot Dot in 2007

today My Grandfather’s Tree survives as an ash tree

Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City sex Henrike Naumann examines the aestheticsTakashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a citys unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the cameras box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissuss pool. The narcissistic city is a city transfixed upon its own image a