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The “Model Citizens – Continuum” project is a result of an artist-in-residence project taken up by artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitenhuis in the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.
Intrigued by social changes taking place within an urban setting, Osterholt and Uitenhuis created an astonishingly true-to-life scale-model of the Antikhana district in Cairo. Collaborating with local artists, the personal wishes of local residents were assimilatetd into the model, as a result of which the once so realistic model was gradually changed into a utopian Liliputian landscape.
And the model continues to evolve. During the exhibition, on a daily basis, the artists will continue working on the model in ordeer to visualise the remaining ideas of local residents of Antikhana.
The exhibition is accompagnied by a publication which is available in SCHUNCK from 29 January.