
Alpha Cities
- Publisher
- Éditions Bessard
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 979-10-91406-94-9
- Specifications
- Soft binding
260 x 170 mm
36 pages
250 copies + a signed C-print
Design by Thibault Geffroy
Text in English
Impériale Collection no. 8
Lucas Lenci presents 14 large-format images, all digitally reconstructed. The compositions point to a surreal photograph, but this aspect is not clear, since the vast majority of the images are subtly assembled to confuse the viewer.
The landscapes were idealized and places with high demographic density appear fused to bucolic areas. In the project, each image is composed of two frames and with this symbiosis, houses and offices appear near ecological reserves, a large shopping center is built a few kilometers from a cattle ranch and extensive green areas emerge alongside huge mirrored towers. With São Paulo, New York or Dubai mixed with the Amazon or the Atlantic Forest, a romanticized view of Brazil, with large green areas, is digitally reconstructed.