Aisle Seat
by Ilias Lois
portfolio special mention call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2020', 2020
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
“The window seat is perfect,” she says. “You have complete control of the win- dow shade, you can see the view and the horizon from up there. People in aisle seats can’t see the horizon. Maybe, they are used to it. I don’t know what goes wrong with them.”
This series takes the impossibility of viewing the horizon as its starting point. But this state extends beyond simply being seated away from the windows of an aeroplane; it is also familiar for those who live in the building strewn land- scape of a big, bustling metropolis. When trying to get vantage point on the horizon, or see the vast open spaces of sea and land, it is futile in the midst of busy city as it is high above the earth in an aisle seat.
(Inkjet Archival Prints, 50 x 50cm & 80 x 80cm)