Under-Construction, 2006, Unique color photograph. 142 x 200 cm

There is something in Andreas Gursky's photographs to do with scale - scale and crowds, even in their absence. His (under-construction) urban valleys, arrested in time, allude to the existence / presence of a hidden public. This binary juxtaposition imposes a holistic view inside of space and time. Faces, when they do appear, are collective yet separate, ignorant, protected by the shell of a steel city. Magically, Gursky himself lurks behind the greyness, ignored by the subject, a creator of a self-refuting, overall poetic viewpoint.