{"id":4724,"date":"2015-03-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/anarchitecture\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:58:31","slug":"anarchitecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/collections\/anarchitecture\/","title":{"rendered":"“Anarchitecture”: Olivier Ratsi’s Glitchy Remixes of the Built Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though we’ve grown used to seeing Photoshopped images, this doesn’t mean that doctored photos have lost their ability to unsettle or provoke us as viewers. This is the impetus behind artist Olivier Ratsi<\/a>‘s “Anarchitecture” series, where familiar buildings are edited into uncanny versions by manipulating colors, textures, and edges to make impossible-looking new skylines.<\/p>\n

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All images courtesy Olivier Ratsi<\/i><\/p>\n

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Joy City<\/i><\/p>\n

Part of the larger WYSI*not*WYG<\/a> (What You See is Not What You Get) project, these new collages give new life to old buildings, making the familiar unfamiliar. This is what makes the images so startling \u2014 they do not seem like they are completely fake, even though we know they have been altered. The evolution of the urban landscape via small edits suggests an evolving fictitious place.<\/p>\n

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Hao and Duo.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Hisar.<\/i><\/p>\n

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By challenging our perception of what we already know, it calls attention to our individual subjectivities. Ratsi says<\/a> he is inspired by Impressionist art, Einstein\u2019s restraint relativity, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg\u2019s quantum mechanics, and Heinz Dieter Zeh and his work on quantic decoherence. In Space Ana<\/a> (below), the same treatment is given in real-time on the fa\u00e7ade of buildings. The projection-mapping installation changes the way we see the building illuminating it with shifting shapes and shadows in orchestrated chaos.<\/p>\n