ONE FLIGHT UP by John Perivolaris
216 x 154mm, 40 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2025
Next time you walk down the increasingly uniform streets of any of our cities and towns look up. There, the upper floors of banks, international chain-stores, and hipster coffee bars, as well as the abandoned buildings in-between, have only been grazed by the onward rush of global capital and gentrification below. Even above the dereliction of post-industrial abandonment the flaking ghosts of past glories cling to the sides of gutted cinemas and music halls, or are glimpsed through the fog of the virtual space superimposed on ancient sites photographed millions of times in the service of the corporate algorithm. Battered and bruised, the flotsam and jetsam of time persist one flight up, opening up a space to dream or to glimpse reality.
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