TBILISI
Nikita Kadan, Sellout
Sellout, 2012, watercolor on paper
'Since antiquity, architects and urban planners have conceptualized the city as a human body, where each part has a vital function. In the dominant ideology of market capitalism, this analogy takes on a new meaning: as the body under market-induced conditions of economic and social precarity becomes a collection of separate, individually priced organs, today’s city is not viewed as an integration of functional parts, but as disparate spaces with potential commercial value. The body of the city is dissected and offered up for sale.'
- Lesia Kulchynska