The Possession of Space

• Photographer
  Jon Meade, Canada

The possession of Space

Possession of space within the financial district of London can
be associated with the pursuit of control over the built
environment by installing a corporate trophy landscape, where
the sense of a cultural, social environment is all but eradicated.

The work aims to reinterpret our physical position within space,
in an area of a city that should be called ‘public space’. It
focuses on using new body-positions to discretely violate the
institutional posturing of the city (body) language, destabilizing
its formality.

By using an entirely different set of body forms to create a
different (body) language, we exercise our right to inhabit
space, our freedom to move and intervene as we wish, without
demands being implied or enforced.

Awards 2015: Graduate Most Likely to Succeed Royal Photographic Society article 2015 Source review. Work reviewed and highlighted by Guardian photo write Fiona Shields.