New Ideas CityHello Museum

Invisible Cities: On the Work of Raquel Rabinovich and Monika Bravo

Part of the ETH Zurich Future Garden and Pavilion program

Raquel Rabinovich and Monika Bravo have created works incorporating transparency, layers, and viewer perspective, inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. Rabinovich’s Invisible City (2000) is an installation comprised of white metal frames and white gauze forming seven translucent gates. Likewise, Bravo’s Landscape of Belief (2012) features the gradual emergence of a city from nothing. Bravo achieved this by projecting animations of a cityscape onto panes of glass. In this conversation, the artists will discuss their work and their respective interpretations of “invisible cities” in a panel with art critic Ann McCoy and professor Carla Stellweg.