MCCARTHY, Win
Common Ruin

In his work, McCarthy explores the dialectical relationships between subjects like city and citizen, friend and the stranger, and present and past. McCarthy’s work often testifies to the paradoxical emptiness experienced in a metropolis. Taking the city’s map as a metaphysical topography, the confluence of real estate, architecture, and urban planning become vocabulary for the construction of a self. Besides working with photography and text, McCarthy makes associative installations. His works appear to be images from memories, meeting viewers with a torrent of different emotions, ranging from amusement and admiration to aversion and fear. [publisher's note]

Published in occasion of the exhibition "Win McCarthy: Innenportrait" at KW Berlin, 25 February – 14 May 23.

Published by KW / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2023
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