Suspended Cities I, New York City. Multiple exposure photograph shot on 35 mm color film, by the artist and poet Troels Steenholdt Heiredal — Suspended Cities I, New York City, USA. Multiple exposure photograph shot on 35 mm color film.

INVISIBLE CITIES

2013-ONGOING // 35MM MULTIPLE EXPOSURE // NEW YORK CITY [USA] // TOFTLUND [DK] // MEXICO CITY [MX] // MEDELLIN [COL] // HONG KONG // PARIS [F] // NEW ORLEANS [USA] // BERLIN [D] // HONOLULU [USA] // COPENHAGEN [DK] // BUENOS AIRES [ARG] // ALBANY [USA] // SAO PAULO [BRA] // AARHUS [DK] // VENICE [I] // PROVIDENCE [USA] // PHILADELPHIA [USA] // NEWBURG [USA] // WASHINGTON DC [USA] // MONTREAL [CAN] // CHICAGO [USA]

Invisible Cities unfolds on film and explores concepts of layering in a direct exchange between the city and my self. The work is situated between wander, walking without a fixed goal, and wonder, allowing my curiosity to guide me. Years after I started this project, I learned that I’m Autistic, and can now see how this was always an expression of my Autistic Perception & Wandering.

My relationship to the subject matter is created through direct interaction as I find myself in discrete cities. I am fascinated by the multiple layers of the spatial situation and the idea that cities have personalities. My practice calls attention to the things we often take for granted and invites the audience to reevaluate their relationship to their surroundings. While also evoking unexpected connections between distinct geographies, it questions the relationship we build with our daily surroundings and invites us to reflect on our own experiences of being in the city.

The primary concern of my artistic practice is to facilitate a more nuanced discussion about the spaces we find ourselves in. I seek to examine how we are affected by these spaces, which memories and fragments remain within us that create the personal spaces we all carry within, and how they affect our daily life.

When reading the image, I move between scales and perspectives, which might not correlate in ‘constructed’ space, but only exist within these images. Through this movement, I’m building a new personal city from the mixture. This is a reflection of my Autistic Perception. I invite you to try it.

《Invisible Cities》在底片上展開，透過城市與自我之間的直接交流，探索層疊的概念。這件作品位於 wander——無目的的行走——與 wonder 之間，讓好奇心成為引導方向。於開始這個計畫多年之後，我才得知自己是自閉者（Autistic），如今我能清楚看見，這一直都是我自閉式感知與自閉式漫遊的自然展現。

我與創作主題之間的關係，源於我身處於一座又一座具體城市中的直接互動。我著迷於空間情境中的多重層次，以及「城市具有性格」這樣的想法。我的創作實踐指向那些我們往往視為理所當然的事物，並邀請觀眾重新檢視自己與周遭環境的關係。同時，作品也喚起不同地理之間出乎意料的連結，質疑我們與日常環境所建立的關係，並引導我們反思自身作為「身在城市之中」的經驗。

我藝術實踐的核心關注，在於促成一場對我們所身處空間更為細緻的討論。我試圖探究這些空間如何影響我們，又有哪些記憶與碎片留存在我們之中，形塑出每個人內在所攜帶的個人空間，以及它們如何作用於我們的日常生活。

在閱讀影像時，我在不同尺度與視角之間游移——這些關係也許無法在「被建構的」空間中對應存在，卻只在這些影像之內成立。透過這樣的移動，我從混合之中建構出一座新的、個人的城市。這正是我自閉式感知的映現。我邀請你親自嘗試。